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April 28, 2006 |
| Dear Associate, |
Last week I presented an online seminar: 50 Ways Students Cheat on Tests. I’ve received feedback and I’m thrilled that some of the participants have been able to use the material to train proctors in their organizations. That was my goal; help people to understand how students cheat, so they know what to look for.
With a nod to David Letterman’s Top 10 List, I submit: 10 Comments Overhead in the Testing Center. If you overhear whisperings like these – you just might have a cheating problem.
10.
“I’d do much better if that proctor would quit walking around.”
9.
“My cell phone gets lousy reception in here.”
8.
“Why are our desks are so far apart?”
7.
“Dangit my iPod battery is low.”
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“I realize it’s a history test. I still need my graphing calculator.”
5.
“The lighting in here is so poor, my camera phone can’t pick up anything.”
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“I can’t take the test booklet to the bathroom?”
3.
“Psst,… have you ever setup Bluetooth?”
2.
“They’re tattoos, I have a passion for algebraic formulas.”
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“Cheating policy? I didn’t know there was a cheating policy?”
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Best regards,
Don Sorensen
VP of Marketing
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Deans crack down on students to eliminate unfair advantage
The Exponent - West Lafayette,Indiana,USA
...Webb encountered a situation where a student asked for a restroom break during a math exam and ran a copy of the test several blocks to drop off to friends. The student's friends literally sat around the kitchen table working on the exam and text messaging the answers to the student, said Webb... |
2 > Some students cheat with old methods and new 'techy' tools
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
...Fattoross' theory is that it isn't laziness that drives students to cheat. They cheat, he said, because they're too busy, as the accelerated pace of high school education and the demands of extracurricular activities, jobs and family whittle down time to study.... |
3 > CBSE says cheating down by half in Delhi
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
...What also seems to have worked for the CBSE this year is the identification of sensitive centres in the city, following which special precautions such as beefing up security were taken to prevent cheating. ... |
4 > Testing the tests
Georgian - Stephenvil,Newfoundland,Canada
...After carefully retesting some of the students (without their teachers touching the second answer sheets) and getting ironclad proof, they fired a dozen teachers for cheating on the test results. The message got out, and the next year cheating dropped off by 30 per cent. ... |
5 > Educator Cheating
EdWeek
...Cheaters are made, not born. So argues W. James Popham in this Education Week Commentary. And a large number of cheaters in American public schools aren't students, Popham writes, they're teachers and administrators motivated by pressure to show improvement on state tests under the No Child Left Behind Act.... |
6 > Young People Judge Stealing And Cheating In School More Harshly Than Downloading
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
...of the 1,644 youth surveyed, 92 percent said taking something from a store without paying for it is "always wrong" and 85 percent consider copying someone else's answers on a test as "always wrong." Yet just 56 percent say it is "always wrong" to download software without paying for it, and 60 percent report the same for downloading music or movies from the Internet without paying for them.... |
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