Cheating In The News Articles

7 - 12 of 642 Total Records << Previous Page :: Next Page >> 2007-07-23 TAKS free-fall raises suspicions of cheating Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA ...This spring, the state required outside monitors to oversee TAKS testing at Forest Brook. They watched over every stage of the testing process in an attempt to prevent any potential misdeeds. The result? Under outside scrutiny, the school's scores collapsed. On the 11th-grade test ? the one students must pass to graduate ? Forest Brook's math passing rate dropped from 80 percent in 2006 to 44 percent this year. In science, the tumble was from 89 percent to 39 percent.... 2007-07-19 Tougher catching cheating with online test takers, educators say Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA ...The number of students taking online courses is surging, which is making things very difficult for educators who want to prevent cheating. ?We have gone from testing with paper and pencil to almost exclusively online,? said John Pribanic, a testing specialist at Edison College in East Naples.... 2007-07-16 Kazak Exam Scammers Outwit Officials Institute for War and Peace Reporting - London,England,UK ...According to the press service, the man was arrested as he attempted to sell a compact disc for 1,300,000 tenge (around 10,600 US dollars) containing 10,000 codes of correct answers to UNT questions. During a subsequent police raid prompted by the arrest, NSC employees found large sums of money - 25,000 dollars, and over 2 million tenge (around 16,000 dollars) - said to have been received for assistance in passing the UNT.... 2007-07-15 Cheating on standardized tests isn't fleeting -- it's predictable San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA ...More than 30 years ago, Donald Campbell, an eminent social scientist, warned about the danger of measuring effectiveness by a single influential metric. The more any quantitative indicator is used for decision-making, he said, the more subject it will be to corruption and the more it will corrupt the very process it is intended to monitor. The use of high-stakes testing is precisely the kind of process that Campbell's Law unwittingly foresaw. When attention is focused on standardized test scores to the exclusion of other factors in evaluating educational quality, the stage is ideally set for unethical behavior. Uprep, however, is not alone. And neither are charter schools.... 2007-07-14 Oakland charter school director resigns amid cheating scandal Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA ...This year, Padia said, investigators found 2005 algebra and geometry test booklets at the school ? a major security breach. As a result, he said, Uprep's standardized test scores for 2007 will be invalidated as well. "This is pretty serious, in terms of having actual copies of the test," Padia said. State education officials have asked Oakland school district officials to take over the investigation and to handle the administration of future state tests at the school, Padia said.... 2007-07-14 Sentencing July 25 in Guard test bribery ArmyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA ...Thomas was a test examiner for the Office of Personnel Management when, between September 2000 and February 2002, she received a total of about $1,500 in cash for boosting ASVAB scores for about 70 applicants, according to court documents. The documents also state that Thomas conspired with Guard recruiters when determining which test scores to manipulate.... << Previous Page :: Next Page >>