1 > School Put on Probation After Students Accused Of Cheating on AP Tests
The Washington Post.
The College Board, which produces Advanced Placement tests, put Severna Park High School on probation after allegations of students cheating on an exam in the spring, Anne Arundel County school officials said yesterday. The high school can continue administering AP tests but will be closely monitored. The board also banned the instructor involved from ever administering AP tests and ordered the official in charge of the school’s AP tests to attend a workshop for AP coordinators.
2 > Schools combat cheating one student at a time
The Idaho Press-Tribune
Parents should be aware of a school’s policy for electronic devices and Internet usage, especially in regard to cheating. Some Canyon County schools even have an all-out ban on such things as cell phones, iPods and MP3 players, partly because of the role the gadgets play in cheating. Local principals emphasize that the majority of students are honest in academics, and instances of catching a student cheating are rare. That’s partly because of electronics bans in class. At Caldwell High, a blanket no-use policy is in effect for cell phones, although students are allowed to use iPods and MP3 players during their lunch period. Vallivue High has a total ban on electronic devices on campus.
3 > Colleges Battle High Tech Cheating
Yahoo! Tech
So many technologies, so many ways to use them to cheat. There have been widespread reports of kids taking cell phone photos of their exams and sending them to other students via SMS messaging. Other stories cite students using PDAs to keep their notes by their sides during a test, and online paper mills where you can buy a ready-to-turn-in paper on just about anything. Some kids are purportedly so good at text messaging that they can dole out test answers without taking their phone out of their pocket.
4 > Phones may be jammed to stop cheats
NZ Herald
Cellphone jamming technology may be used to cut cheating in high school exams as mobile phones emerge as one of the biggest problems for officials. Last year 56 candidates were discovered with cellphones turned on in exams. At Auckland Grammar candidates were censured in seven incidents and two more candidates at the decile 10 school in Epsom were let off with a warning.
5 > Penalty Will Increase for Cheating on DMV Test
Salem-News.Com
The penalty for cheating on the DMV knowledge test will get tougher starting Sept. 4th. Under a pilot policy, applicants who DMV determines are cheating will not be eligible to retake any knowledge test for 90 days. “Our policy had been to give applicants caught cheating a failing score, which allowed them to retake the test the next business day,” said Stephanie Miles, DMV field services manager. “But we need a stronger deterrent than the one-day wait and having to pay the test fee again.”
6 > Canadian cheating aid draws U.K. blast
Canada.com
“The advertising of this product is absolutely disgraceful,” the authority’s director of standards Isabel Nisbet told the BBC. “As a regulator we take malpractice very seriously and will be taking any action we can.” And in stories about the ExamEar carried by the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and other major media, British students were being reminded by the school authority that cheating of any kind can result in failure or expulsion.
7 > With proctors in class, City Day’s test scores fall
Dayton Daily News
City Day Community School, under state investigation for possibly cheating on Ohio achievement tests in 2006, saw its scores plummet in 2007 when testing there was monitored. Last year, City Day jumped two steps from the bottom rating of academic emergency to continuous improvement on Ohio’s five-step scale after huge test score gains. The Dayton Daily News first reported in February that 44 questions on practice tests taken by City Day students were identical or substantially the same as questions that appeared on the actual state exam they took just days later in March 2006.
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