One staff member at a Springfield charter school told state education investigators he felt so pressured by his principal last spring to improve MCAS scores that, in order to keep his job, he helped one student write an essay for the test.
Another staff member said he was fired after he accused the principal of encouraging cheating, while another staff member observed a colleague pull some students away from watching a movie so they could fix answers on their tests.
via Springfield charter school staff admits helping on MCAS – The Boston Globe.
South Korean police are investigating a local cram school suspected of using paper cutters and electronic devices to copy questions from the leading U.S. college entrance SAT exam and passing them to students.
The probe, widened on Monday, is one of several in South Korea in the past few years where law enforcement officials in the education-obsessed country have gone after cram schools thought to have stolen standardised test material.
via S. Korean police probe college exam cheating ring.
More than 4,400 people were caught cheating in last year's GCSEs and A-levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the exams watchdog says.
Figures from Ofqual show a 6% rise in cheating by candidates although the body points out cheating is still very rare, affecting 0.03% of exams taken.
via BBC News – Hi-tech exam cheating increases says Ofqual.
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Shettigar, who gave CAT for the third time in 2009, said while his test in Bangalore had been smooth, many others faced technical issues. What motivated him to file the petition is that students who took the exam in the later days stood to gain, as they got the benefit of understanding the question patterns from those who had appeared for it in the initial days.
“The system was unfair to those who wrote it in the first few days. Despite there being a non-disclosure agreement in place, many students discussed questions on public forums. The HRD ministry accepted the IIMs’ decision to go ahead with the CAT. It is now up to the court to decide if they want to admit the petition,” Shettigar told Business Standard. He filed the petition in consultation with an advocate and no coaching institutes or other bodies were associated with the move.
via CAT taker files PIL against computer-based exam failure.
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The number of Chinese applying to sit the exam soared from 1999 to 2007 with an average annual increase rate of 17 percent. The figure only slightly dropped in 2008, which was mainly attributed to the enthusiastic job market that year.
Experts believe the come back of the fever for this exam reflected a sluggish job market in the global economic downturn.
The MOE has also announced stricter penalty over those caught cheating in this year's exam, such as putting the stain into both their credit and personnel records for reference to future employers.
Cheaters would also be banned from taking the exam next year.
via Record-high number of Chinese flock to post-graduate exam_English_Xinhua.
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State legislators will gather Monday to hear details of Gov. Phil Bredesen’s plan to create a new, mandatory system of evaluating teachers throughout Tennessee that could base as much as 50 percent of a teacher’s review on test scores. Bredesen says the plan will improve Tennessee’s chances of winning a federal competition for education aid.
via Tying tenure to student test scores worries TN teachers | tennessean.com | The Tennessean.
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A Korean lecturer at a private learning institute in Seoul specializing in preparing students for the U.S. standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was arrested Monday for leaking questions to a couple of Koreans in the United States.
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Reported instances of scholastic dishonesty among University students rose more than 44 percent during the 2008-09 academic year, according to the latest data available from the Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity.
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The number of academic misconduct violations at UCF rose 14 percent this year, according to the Office of Student Conduct. Reports from 136 students revealed the statistical data from the 2007-2008 to the 2008-2009 academic year. As defined by the Golden Rule, “Academic misconduct includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, assisting another in cheating or plagiarism, and commercial use of academic materials.”
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People who cheated in high school are more likely to cheat on their taxes or lie to spouses or customers and otherwise bend the truth, a Los Angeles-based ethics institutes report shows. “Once a liar, always a liar” is a proverbial parental admonishment.A new study claims there is truth to the adage: People who cheated on exams in high school are considerably more likely to be dishonest later in life, according to a report to be released today by the Josephson Institute of Ethics.