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1 > 12 in Ohio Patrol face firing in probe - Ohio.com
COLUMBUS: The State Highway Patrol today recommended firing 12 officers accused of cheating on a required test for certification to run breath testing equipment used to determine if a person is intoxicated during drunken driving arrests. An Ohio Inspector General report in July found that a trooper made copies of an exam he took in 2007 and shared answers with other troopers when he retook the test in April.
2 > Exam preparation can put your career at risk - Network World
Every time an individual takes a certification exam online, there are digital “fingerprints” that identify how long that person took to answer each question, whether he went back and changed any answers, and so on. Using data-forensics techniques, this digital evidence is analyzed for every exam taken. With incredible accuracy, the forensics reveal patterns that identify cheaters. Even inadvertent cheaters — those who didn’t know they used illegal preparatory materials — can be caught, but they are not distinguished from people who cheat intentionally. As a representative from Microsoft Learning recently said, cheating is cheating across the board.
3 > Postyourtest.com raises ethical concerns - eSchoolNews
Stephen Satris, the interim director of the Center for Academic Integrity, said many college professors distribute identical exams year after year, allowing students to simply memorize answers–for both multiple- choice and short-answer questions–instead of studying the class material and lecture notes. The proliferation of sites that post exams could shake longtime college faculty members from their malaise and force them to create brand-new tests every semester. “Yes, [web sites like Postyourtest.com are] worrisome, partly because we can be pretty sure that not all instructors are changing their tests every semester, as they should,” Satris said in an eMail message to eSchool News. “It should be something of a wake-up call. We should assume that if we’ve given a test, then the test is somewhere out there. These sorts of sites bring that message home to faculty.”
4 > Tests crammed to stop internet cheating | Herald Sun
HIGH school students will be forced to sweat it out in exam halls for more than six hours a day because the State Government is worried about internet cheats. Despite fatigue and stress concerns, VCE students with three exams on the same day in November face a marathon.
5 > Exam cheats force review of teachers - The Phnom Penh Post
Rampant cheating at high school exams this year has forced the government to investigate the widespread practice of students paying their teachers for test answers, education officials said Wednesday. “After the examination results are announced we will conduct a meeting with the chief of the education department and school directors around the country to find a way to stop teachers from taking money from their students and students from giving money to their teachers,” said Chroeng Lim Sry, director of the high school department at the Ministry of Education.
6 > Phone a friend — welcome to the new face of exams
EDUCATORS have backed a NSW schools controversial decision to allow students to use the internet and iPods during an English exam. Year 9 students at Presbyterian Ladies College in Sydney used the technology - and were even permitted to phone a friend for help - as part of a series of 40-minute tasks. To discourage plagiarism, they were required to cite all their sources.
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