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| March 23, 2005 |
| Dear Associate, |
During the last year I've learned one thing sending these e-mails: people like pictures. In the last e-mail I sent more people clicked to see ATP pictures than any of the cheating stories. Maybe I could increase readership by posting photos from family vacations? Then again -- maybe not.
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This week there's an interesting story about a guy so enamored with tests that he got paid to take them. Problem is he wasn't being paid by testing programs -- but by test-takers. For a price he took the GRE, GMAT or TOEFL over and over to the tune of over $282,000. That's a lot of test taking. He'll spend the next 30 months in federal prison, which should give him sufficient time to pass his GED ;-) |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security |
1 > High-stakes cheating spawns new market
eSchool News
...a growing number of states are contracting with outside firms to guard against such testing fraud. When North Carolina recently hired security company Caveon Inc. of Utah to guard against cheating on standardized tests, it became at least the third state to outsource security services for its high-stakes testing to Caveon. South Carolina and Delaware have signed similar agreements with the company... |
2 > 30-month sentence given in test-taking scheme
Baltimore Sun - USA
...A Chinese immigrant from New York was sentenced in Baltimore yesterday for his role in what industry insiders described as one of the largest known impersonation schemes of standardized tests. Zhigang Cao, 38, received 30 months in federal prison for defrauding the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the colleges and universities that heavily rely on the integrity of its scores.... |
3 > A New Form of Cheating
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
...John Wiley & Sons announced Thursday that it had filed 10 lawsuits over the illegal sale of special guidebooks online. Six of the suits involve the sale by students of text guidebooks that are provided only to professors and that contain answers to test questions or assignments outlined in the texts.... |
4 > Scrutinized schools see test scores fall
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
...Nearly all of the Houston elementary schools being investigated for possible cheating on the state's standardized achievement test produced sharply weaker exam results this year.... |
5 > Exam Cheating Shows Rot in Society
AllAfrica.com - Africa
...The uproar over examination cheating in this country is periodic. Next year like this year, the month of March will present yet another moment for the public to repeat the chorus about students who will miss results because they cheated.... |
6 > Lawmaker proposes legislation against exam fraud
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
...A deputy to the National People's Congress said Saturday China needs to enact an "examination law" to fight fraud in various examinations and ensure fair play in competition by legal means.... |
7 > Exam mess: Officials say they can’t pass the test
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
...Today, a flying squad encountered a centre where frightened girl students said they were being threatened by boys of the Sports College into writing exams for them, and the invigilators confessed they couldn’t do anything about it.... |
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