1 > One Third of Teens Use Cellphones to Cheat in School - On Education (usnews.com)
Forget passing handwritten notes underneath desks or inking your arm with essential math formulas before a killer test. If students today want to cheat, they have a more insidious tool at their disposal: cellphones. More than one third of teens with cellphones admit to having stored information on them to look at during a test or texting friends about answers, a new survey finds. And teens’ parents, while realistic about the frequency of cheating in schools, might need to overcome their own blind spots: More than 75 percent of parents responding to the survey say that cellphone cheating happens at their children’s school, but only 3 percent believe their own teen is using a cellphone to cheat.
2 > More than 2,000 found cheating in China’s college entrance exam_English_Xinhua
A total of 2,219 candidates, or 0.023 percent of the 10.2 million college entrance exam sitters in China this year, were found cheating, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE) Friday. The ministry said the cheating cases were down from 0.026 percent of last year, representing a historical low in terms of percentage since the national college examination was resumed in 1977 due to tight surveillance and heavier punishment.
3 > When Even Teachers Cheat - The Jakarta Globe
He said there had been numerous cases of teachers providing test answers. “There are teachers who write the answers on the board, dictate them to the students or send them out via SMS,” he said. Utomo said that the recent examination scandal showed that helping students cheat could backfire. “They [teachers] wanted to help their students but it turned out that the answers did not match the problems io the exam,” he said. “None of the students passed.”
4 > Georgia’s test monitoring not as tough as other states - Atlanta Metro News
After allegations of widespread cheating on standardized tests made news in Texas nearly five years ago, state officials formed a battle plan. They would study blocks of test questions to detect answer copying, assign monitors to campuses with a history of irregularities and punish cheating school districts by lowering their accreditation ratings. Officials promised to develop a statistical measure to scour hundreds of thousands of scores for the sort of impossibly steep gains that are a hallmark of blatant cheating. Meanwhile, South Carolina’s education department for years has scrutinized erasures on answer sheets to look for unusual numbers of corrected responses. Suspicious findings are reported to state law enforcement. Other states also search yearly for patterns that would betray cheating.
5 > China’s exam cheats go high-tech - Asia Times Online
In early June, Chinese police were unusually busy catching “spies”. But the “spies” were not trying to steal state secrets, they were students using cutting-edge spy-ware to cheat in make-or-break national college entrance exams. Despite it being increasingly difficult for fresh university graduates to find good jobs, and though the chance of high school students being admitted to universities has grown slimmer due to the fast expansion of university enrollment, entrance exams remain very competitive.
6 > Ancient Chinese ‘cheat sheets’ discovered - Telegraph
The tiny booklets, printed on silk, date from the middle of the Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1911) and may have been used by students to jog their memories of Confucius’ Analects and other works of literature required for the Imperial civil service examinations. One of the texts, discovered in Qingdao, is thought to be the smallest book ever found in Eastern China. The 160 page text is two-and-a-half inches long and under two inches wide and can fit into a matchbox. It contains 140,000 characters drawn from exam texts.
7 > School test scores investigated for fraud - Local - The Sun News
A state probe into alleged tampering on a standardized test at a struggling, inner-city South Carolina school has ended without conclusions or arrests, leaving lingering questions over how test scores shot up so dramatically.
8 > Research - Students say using tech to cheat isn’t cheating - eSchoolNews
Of the teens who admit to cheating with their cell phones, 26 percent say they store information on their phone to look at during a test, 25 percent text friends about answers during a test, 17 percent take pictures of the test to send to friends, and 20 percent search the internet for answers during tests using their phones. Also, nearly half (48 percent) of teens with cell phones call or text their friends to warn them about pop quizzes. What’s more, just over half of students polled (52 percent) admitted to some form of cheating involving the internet.
9 > Judge forgives 33 cheating students- Hindustan Times
A metropolitan magistrate acquitted 33 young people, including five girls, who were caught cheating in an examination, saying he did not want to ruin their future. The young people were accused of receiving answers on their mobile phones, while taking an exam at the Delhi Engineering College in 2005.
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