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| March 8, 2005 |
| Dear Associate, |
Last week I attended the Association of Test Publishers conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. This year's conference had a large turnout with over 700 attendees. The many sessions were practical and informative. If you're not a member of ATP I suggest you look into the organization and plan to attend next year's conference in February, which will be held in Orlando, Florida.
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My colleague Jerry Christensen took lots of pictures at ATP, if you'd like to see them click here. |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Text-a-friend: the high-tech approach to cheating
Silver Chips Online - Silver Spring,MD,USA
...During his Modern World History final exam last year, Mike, a senior, came to a difficult question. After mulling it over and failing to come up with the right answer, he decided to turn to text-messaging. Quietly, Mike put his head down on his desk and pretended to sleep while texting his friend the question under his desk. The friend texted the answer back to Mike, who quickly bubbled it in " all without the teacher noticing. ... |
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2 > Academic honesty needs better policy
The Yale Herald
...Three students approached their professor after they witnessed a student copying from their tests on multiple occasions. The professor said he didn't want to know the student's name; rather than investigate the situation or hand the case over to the Yale Executive Committee, the professor simply moved subsequent... |
3 > Students Using Cell Phones For High-Tech Cheating
Mobiledia - Ellicott City,MD,USA
...With continuing technological advances, the cell phone has become an all-in-one device, taking on several roles in communication, photography, and gaming. However a growing, more alarming, trend has also added cheating among the list. ... |
4 > Exam cheats put cellphones in shoes
Thailand
...Forty-six Thai students have been banned from the military for life after they tried to cheat in an army entrance examination by concealing cellphones in their shoes.... |
5 > Exam Council Nullifies the Results of 1,700 Cheats
AllAfrica.com - Africa
...Close to 2,000 students cheated in last year's KCSE examination, defeating tough new measures effected last year to stop the vice. Of the 1,739 candidates from 107 schools who had their results cancelled, at least 600 were from schools in Nyanza Province.... |
6 > Detectors to be used to thwart exam cheating
Korea Herald (subscription) - Seoul,South Korea
...Metal or radar detectors may be used from this year's Scholastic Aptitude Test to unearth cellular phones, which were used in an organized cheating scam last year, and cheaters could be suspended from taking the national university entrance exam for two or three years.... |
7 > Scandals Rock schools Teachers Involved in Cheating, Manipulation of Scores
Korea Times - South Korea
...The prosecution Friday brought Sogang University’s admissions scandal to an end by arresting two professors involved. Sogang University chancellor Ryu Jang-son and 17 faculty members tendered their resignations on Thursday, taking responsibility for the school’s admissions irregularities.... |
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