Dear Associate,

The first link in this week's Cheating in the News is especially interesting. It's the web page of a college student from Russia touting high-tech ways that students can cheat on tests. All of them you've seen covered here before, with the exception of the "SoundBug." I'm not quite sure how someone would use this for cheating. If you can figure it out please let me know.

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1 > 7 Hi-Tech Gadgets That Can Help You Cheat at Exams
online2college
...As technology advances and students get better at using the latest devices, teachers and school officials find it harder to keep up with cheaters. The more that cheating goes uncaught, the freer students feel to do it. With so much new technology emerging every day, it was only a matter of time before schools began to accept it into their classrooms. After all, technology is a big part of a student's life....

3 > Monitors will oversee state testing in Pa. schools
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
...When students sit down today in classrooms across Pennsylvania to start tackling the 2007 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment math and reading tests, someone from outside their schools might be watching to see how principals and teachers administer the exams....

3 > Cheating leads to complete overhaul of graduate exam
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
...Rampant cheating by tech-savvy students in East Asia, including those from Taiwan, has forced the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the US-based testing organization with an annual budget of nearly US$1 billion, to promulgate a new, "cheat-resistant" version of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) worldwide, testing officials said yesterday....

4 > January SAT Reasoning Test Results Cancelled for South Korea
ETS
...SAT Reasoning Test results for approximately 900 students who took the January 2007 administration in South Korea will be cancelled. The decision, made by the College Board, was based upon results of an investigation by ETS’s Office of Testing Integrity into a breach of security prior to the exam....

5 > Cheating claim after 100% pass 11-plus test
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
...Scores of parents have lodged complaints after it emerged that record numbers of pupils in Warwickshire had gained 100 per cent in entrance tests. It is claimed copies of 11-plus papers are being circulated among private tutors, who can improve their reputation by helping pupils into top grammar schools....

6 > Cheating in Middle School and High School
The Educational Forum
...There is increasing concern about cheating in the secondary schools. This article describes the prevalence of dishonesty in testing, motivation for student cheating, new forms of deception using technology tools, initiatives to protect security of tests, methods students use to obtain papers without crediting the original source, tools for detecting plagiarism, guidelines to minimize cheating, emergence of cyber laws defining offenses and penalties, and rationale for getting parents involved in supporting academic integrity and ethical behavior. ...

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