Even though Albany ISD reported the incident to the TEA in an upfront manner, Culbertson said the action was necessary to send a “strong message” to future offenders. Culbertson said a single act of cheating affects the well being of many students.
“The action seems harsh and stern, but the state does not tolerate cheating,” Culbertson said. “It’s the student that is being cheated and can affect them long term.”
via TEA: Action regarding Albany testing sends strong message » Abilene Reporter News.
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The curriculum will be narrowed even more than under George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind, because of the link between wages and scores. There will be even less time available for the arts, science, history, civics, foreign language, even physical education. Teachers will teach to the test. There will be more cheating, more gaming the system.
via Diane Ravitch: Obama’s Race to the Top Will Not Improve Education.
Investigators say more than 100 educators should face scrutiny or punishment after they found evidence of them cheating for students on a statewide achievement test at 58 schools in Atlanta.
via Audit: 109 Atlanta educators suspected of cheating | San Francisco Examiner.
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DCPS hired Caveon Test Security, a Utah firm that specializes in forensic analysis of answer sheets, to handle the investigation.
via D.C. Schools Insider – 2009 test scores for one elementary class tossed.
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The commission, using Caveon Test Security, a firm that specializes in forensic data analysis, conducted a more nuanced erasure analysis than the state’s, taking into account factors like whether the erasures actually made a difference in whether the student passed.
via Cheating Scandal Haunts Atlanta School Superintendent – NYTimes.com.
Parents of St Leonard's Primary School students say the suspension of a teacher who cheated shows that the NAPLAN testing has been a failure.
A year seven teacher has been suspended from the Adelaide primary school after she confessed to changing answers in the literacy test sat by students this week.
Parent Kendall Egglestone says it shows the national benchmark testing is a bad idea.
via School faces fallout from cheating teacher – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
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“Students generally understand what constitutes cheating, but they do it anyway,” study co-author Kenneth Kiewra, a professor of educational psychology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said in a news release. “They cheat on tests, homework assignments and when writing reports. In some cases, though, students simply don't grasp that some dishonest acts are cheating.”
The researchers anonymously surveyed 100 juniors from a high school in the US Midwest, asking them about their experiences with cheating and what they thought about it.
via Health24 – News, Parenting/Child health.
Thirteen junior officers were kicked out of the Marine Corps last week after officials uncovered widespread cheating on a land navigation exam.
All 13 were students at The Basic School aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., a six-month training course for newly commissioned officers. Eight men — including two former football players from the Naval Academy — and five women were administratively discharged May 20 for allegedly using cheat sheets last fall to help them locate boxes stashed in the woods aboard the base, Marine officials said. Two of the 13 officers were prior enlisted Marines.
via 13 officers fired in cheating scandal – MarineCorpsTimes.com.
So far, the state says it believes no one has been injured by uncertified personnel, but this is the latest in an unrelenting string of stories of moral bankruptcy. Some involve individuals such as the Harvard University senior who faked his way into school; US Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who wrongly said he served in Vietnam; and investment fraud king Bernie Madoff. Then there is the wreckage of institutional disasters, such as the state Probation Department’s patronage scandal exposed by the Globe, the Wall Street collapse, and the Bush and Obama administrations exempting offshore drilling and seismic projects from environmental impact review, including BP’s ill-fated Deepwater Horizon.
via America’s crisis of integrity – The Boston Globe.
As millions of students gear up for the national college entrance exam, Chinese authorities are waging war on cheating by building an electronic surveillance network and conducting security checks on students arriving for the exams.
In final preparations for the college entrance exam slated for June 7 and 8, the government in Songyuan in northeastern Jilin Province has installed more than 800 cameras to monitor those taking tests in the city's 650 exam halls.
via China weaves surveillance net to curb cheating in national college entrance test.