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July 29, 2004 |
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Dear Associate, |
| Many of this week's stories come from Asia where there have been a number of well-planned mass-cheating incidents. But all the news from the East isn't bad news. In Vietnam 750,000 twelfth graders recently took their final exams with no, let me repeat - NO reported instances of cheating. How'd they do it? With good planning and well-organized supervision. Check out story #1. |
| Moving backwards across the International Date Line seems the statistics on cheating continue to increase here in the United States. Many colleges are reporting a dramatic increase in cheating in the last few years. Check out story #6. |
| Hope you're having a great summer! |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Ministry Enlists Supervisors to Prevent Cheating in Exams
Vietnam News
The ministry set up four teams to supervise exam preparations in 12 provinces and cities, six teams to supervise the exam itself and three teams to oversee grading in certain places. Any supervisors caught violating exam regulations would be seriously punished, said Le Thi Thanh Xuan, deputy chief inspector on education of the ministry. |
2 > Cheaters Never Win: Ethics and IT Certification
Certification Magazine
If you’ve read any newspaper, listened to the radio or watched TV within the past six months, you know cheating is on the rise. Students are using cell phones to cheat on tests. Corporate executives are being sent to jail left and right for embezzling funds or for insider trading. Even journalists have been caught plagiarizing work and exaggerating story lines in hopes of sensationalizing the news.
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3 > Six Indicted in College Test Fraud
The Washington Post
An indictment handed up Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore charges five men and a woman with defrauding university admissions exams at testing sites in Bethesda, Lanham and Columbia. |
4 > High-tech cheating Runs Rampant
China Daily
In feudal times when corruption was rampant, standard tests used to be the only vestige of fair competition in which meritocracy held its sway. Now this last bastion of integrity is under attack from all sides as cheating threatens to engulf this thousand-year-old institution of social fair play.
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5 > Examination Cheating Ring Busted
Taiwan News
Police were searching yesterday for 32 individuals who were suspected of cheating in a national examination to gain pharmacist credentials after arresting 18 other suspects on Saturday, law enforcement and judicial officials revealed yesterday.
Related article: Minister calls for harsher penalties for exam cheats
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6 > Cheating Soars, but 'It's All Right'
Chicago Sun-Times
DePaul University, has seen a tenfold increase in reported cases of cheating in the past five years. "We like to think our students are more committed than most, but they are not saints, either,'' said Charles Strain, the school's associate vice president for academic affairs.
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7 > Cheaters Win, and It's Partly Our Fault
Lexington Herald-Leader
We worship at the altar of credentials, then we are incredulous that someone would make up impressive facts for their resume. We seldom use integrity and character as benchmarks. Instead, we get hung up on credentials and high test scores. The second reason is uglier. Too few people ever say cheating is wrong.
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8 > Goal Setting and Cheating: Why They Often Go Together in the Workplace
BetterManagement.com, Knowledge@Wharton
In addition to motivating constructive behavior, goal setting – especially when it involves rewards – can motivate unethical behavior when people fall short of the goals they set or that are set for them. The relationship between goal setting and unethical behavior is particularly strong when people fall just short of reaching the goal.
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