Dear Associate,

Over the last couple of months I have been moving the Cheating in the News database to a new "blog" format. Over 360 article links have been moved and placed in 23 categories. The new blog offers a number of improvements including the addition of pictures and videos, visitors can search the entire blog for specific information, and most importantly visitors can comment on articles. I'm hoping this blog will foster a conversation about test cheating and a discussion of solutions. (Notice the addition of "comment" links next to each article below.)

I would appreciate any feedback you can offer concerning the new blog format for Cheating in the News. Let me know if the categories make sense and if you'd like to see additional categories created. Check out the new blog by clicking here.

In the next couple of weeks the blog will move to a permanent position on the Caveon website.

Best regards,

Don Sorensen
Vice President, Marketing
Caveon Test Security
don.sorensen@caveon.com
801.592.3396

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1 > Schools Under Scrutiny Over Cheating - New York Times
AT a time when the pressure to do well on standardized tests in public schools creates incentives to cheat, states are just beginning to look for the patterns that betray it. While there is nothing new about cheating, in the last year state officials say teachers or administrators on Long Island and in New Jersey and Westchester have tried to improve their schools’ standings using methods that were ultimately easy to detect. But no one was looking systematically.
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2 > Do Accounting Students Cheat? A Study Examining Undergraduate Accounting Students’ Honesty and Perceptions of Dishonest Behavior by David Morris, Claire Kilian – SSRN
Research suggests that a significant number of undergraduate students have cheated at some point during their college careers. This is of particular concern to the accounting profession and accounting educators given the ethical crisis within the profession and corporate America. This paper discusses the results of a study that surveyed 569 undergraduate business majors from seven universities.
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3 > Seller of exam-cheating device shuts down its website for ‘moral’ reasons - canada.com
A transatlantic uproar triggered by a Canadian business selling high-tech cheating aids for students has forced the Toronto-based online retailer of theExamEar “wireless micro spy earphone” to shut down its website for “moral” reasons.
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4 > Question of questions in test prep flap - OnlineAthens.com
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy says UGA pharmacy professor Flynn Warren gathered questions from a licensure test called the NAPLEX, then shared them with students about to take the test. One student told Warren that 60 percent to 70 percent of the questions on the NAPLEX exam she took had been in Warren’s review materials, according to legal documents filed in U.S. District Court.
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5 > Corona, Moreno Valley teachers violate state testing rules - PE.com
An English teacher at Citrus Hills Intermediate School in Corona used old exam questions to help students get ready for the tests. A fourth-grade teacher at Red Maple Elementary School in Moreno Valley improperly prepared students for the writing portion of the test. Identities of the teachers were not released by the Corona-Norco and Val Verde school districts, which reported the incidents to the state. The two schools were among 15 statewide that did not receive an Academic Performance Index score last week because of “testing irregularities.” The state uses the term to refer to anything that compromises the test results, from outright cheating to using past years’ exams for practice.
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6 > When Collaboration Goes Too Far - Inside Higher Ed
Whether or not cheating took place in a 100-level course at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School last spring, the scenario being described is likely to raise red flags for professors everywhere. The allegations involve teams of students collaborating on an assignment that required writing complicated computer code, according to students at Wharton, Penn’s business school. As first reported Thursday in The Daily Pennsylvanian, the course in question is Operations and Information Management 101, which is required, is made up mostly of freshmen and is known to be one of the most challenging in the school.
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