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April 13, 2006 |
| Dear Associate, |
Sometimes I have a difficult time choosing just the right stories to include in this e-mail. I generally review around 50 articles and then pare the list down to the 5 most useful. Because it was hard to decide this week -- I’m including 10. The topics run the usual gamut; from cell phone and calculator cheating to high school students buying test items on eBay.
I enjoyed the editorial “Fault cheaters, not tests” from the Philadelphia Inquirer in which the writer justifiably criticizes unethical educators that cheat on standardized tests to improve their school standings. Quote, “Good riddance to these hoaxers. Their deceptions can cost their schools resources, and give students the wrong impression that they are doing fine in class… Do we want to let critics of the No Child Left Behind law spin cheating as a kind of noble civil disobedience?”
If you’d like to learn more about the new high tech methods students use to cheat don’t miss next week’s Caveon webinar: 50 Ways Students Cheat on Tests, presented by yours truly.
Best regards,
Don Sorensen
VP of Marketing
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Editorial | Fault cheaters, not tests
Philadelphia Inquirer
...The whining about testing since No Child Left Behind went into effect may have obscured a basic fact: High-stakes testing is not a new phenomenon. It is not the evil spawn of President Bush's education policy.... |
2 > Calculator + cheating = unethical
The Emory Wheel - USA
...Because graphing calculators are required for most business, science and math tests, students are able to bring in formulas and notes without raising the teacher's suspicions.... |
3 > Cheating scrutiny widens
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
...More school districts are investigating possible security breaches on last month’s state tests, and the state is continuing to collect charges of student cheating, the Ohio Department of Education said yesterday.... |
4 > Cheat wave
Indianapolis Star - United States
...It's called "high-tech cheating" for a reason -- the tools of the trade no longer include a crib sheet hidden up one's sleeve. Rather, it's the cell phone, the BlackBerry device, the PDA (or personal digital assistant), the programmable graphing math calculator and the current standby-- the Internet, with its ability to do lightning-fast searches.... |
5 > Rampant cheating on new test
Aftenposten - Oslo,Norway
...An attempt to hold a paperless mock exam posed too many temptations for a class at Bingsfoss Middle School. Related stories: Using Internet source material branded cheating - Over half of the tenth graders at Bingsfoss decided to cheat on the day-long test, newspaper Romerikes Blad reports.... |
6 > 'Watch out' warning to exam cheats
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
...Northern Ireland's exams body has issued a cheating warning to students taking exams this summer. CCEA, the body responsible for setting and marking GCSE and GCE examinations in the province, said that any student who cheats will be caught.... |
7 > Cheaters rarely prosper in long run
The Auburn Plainsman - AL, USA
...The number of students caught is higher this year because teachers are becoming more aware of the problem and have smarter search mechanisms such a turnitin.com, a device used to check students’ work for plagiarism.... |
8 > Doctor scanned paper, engineer helped
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
...Dr Grey Bernard allegedly scanned the 80-page question paper with the “docu pen” at Chennai’s Pachaiyappa’s college — an exam centre — before throwing it out of a particular window.... |
9 > Cheating goes high tech
Delmarva Daily Times - MD,USA
...Text messaging, a high-tech method of cheating that factored into a September decision to prohibit students from carrying cell phones while in Wicomico County schools, now has Somerset County education officials considering a revamping of an electronic communications and camera devices policy.... |
10 > School cheating scheme exposed
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
...Administrators busted up a cheating scheme at Central Cambria High School involving more than 30 students who were using test answers bought on eBay, the Internet sales and auction site....
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