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1 > Schools Cancel GMAT Scores - WSJ.com
Top U.S. business schools canceled the admissions-test scores of 84 applicants and students — including two enrolled at the University of Chicago and one who has graduated from Stanford University — who allegedly supplied or accessed live exam questions posted on a Web site.
2 > Universities catching hundreds of cheats - WalesOnline
MORE than 800 students have been caught cheating at universities in South Wales since 2005, a new study has revealed. The majority were found guilty of copying from the internet or submitting work that they had not completed, while dozens of others had been caught cheating in the exam hall.
3 > Author explains moral deterioration in America - La Vida
Pressures to get good grades, get accepted to a prestigious university or land one’s dream job, may lead to cheating to get ahead. David Callahan, author of “The Cheating Culture,” a book about declining ethics in American society, spoke at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Allen Theatre in the Student Union Building. The more temptations people face, Callahan said, the more corners they are likely to cut.
4 > Nearly 100 Would-Be MBAs Nailed in GMAT Scandal - BusinessWeek
The GMAT cheating scandal that has roiled the business school world for nearly three months, threatening to shatter the dreams of thousands, ended this week with more of a whimper than a bang. The exam administrator voided the scores of just 84 test takers and is allowing the vast majority of them to retake the exam immediately. At least some of the voided scores belong to students who have either already been accepted to business school or have graduated.
5 > ChaCha service raises fears of cheating via cell phone | Philadelphia Inquirer
A new cell-phone service that promises to give free answers to virtually any question within minutes has some academics worried that it will be yet another device to help students cheat. The Indianapolis-based ChaCha began its free service in January, and business has since mushroomed to 300,000 inquiries a day.
6 > Twelve state troopers fired for cheating - Cleveland Metro News
A dozen State Highway Patrol troopers, including 11 from the Canton post, have been fired for cheating on a certification test for drunken-driving detection devices. The firings will leave the Canton post understaffed with 30 percent of the troopers gone.
7 > The Crisis Brewing in the Classroom - The Moscow Times
When economics student Mikhail Popov struggled with a final exam at a regional university, he was offered an alternative — pay $200 and get a good grade. “I wasn’t sure of how well I would do, so I agreed in order to avoid any problems,” Popov said. It is a common practice at his university, he said: “A lot of people do it — the majority.”
8 > Researcher Studies Epidemic Of Student Cheating — Courant.com
Jason Stephens, a rising star in the field of academic dishonesty, believes that cheating in high school is rampant. Consider that 65 percent of high school students admitted to serious test cheating and that 57 percent admitted to plagiarism in a national survey of more than 25,000 high school students conducted from 2001 to 2008. But Stephens, an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut, thinks he has an answer for what he describes as a cheating epidemic.
9 > Cheaters: Inside the hidden world of IT certification fraud - Network World
For the first time ever, companies that develop and administer IT certification exams are working together to combat a problem that has largely been swept under the rug for years: certification fraud. A group of IT hardware and software vendors, independent certifying agencies, test centers and others have formed the IT Certification Council (ITCC). The goal is to share knowledge and resources to combat and prevent fraud, which is threatening to undermine the value of IT certification.
10 > Confessions of a cert cheat - Network World
A member of the Exam Security Team from a major IT solutions vendor recently received an e-mail from an IT professional who owned up to the fact that he had inadvertently cheated to prepare for his certification exam. “As part of my preparation I downloaded a couple of ‘brain dump’ exams off the Internet,” says the student in his note. “My intentions were not to memorize these tests and cheat my way through the exam; although I must admit there were moments that I thought knowing a couple of questions would help. I had a hard time believing that the brain dumps could be the actual test questions. That’s just not legitimate.”
11 > Don’t be fooled by suspicious test preparation Web sites - Network World
Just a few weeks after Microsoft unveiled stiff new penalties for certification exam cheaters, the company won a court victory against one Web site Microsoft claims is a braindump. Pass4Sure.com, according to Microsoft, was illegally selling exam answers, helping certification-seeking IT pros cheat their way to a passing score. A preliminary injunction issued by a federal court in Connecticut ordered the site to stop publishing Microsoft test materials.
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