He left the exam, wandered down the hall and called his friend from a bathroom stall.

The professor in the adjacent stall was not amused.

That’s how one cheater wound up in front of Karen Parsons, the co-ordinator of the office of student conduct at Mount Royal University.

via More students use high-tech gadgets to cheat on exams.

via Cheating: Teach students first, then crack down – The Boston Globe.

Welcome to the future, or as The New York Times refers to it, “the frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating,” (“To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery”, June 5). The above scene, straight out of an Orwellian dystopia, is a real possibility for University of Central Florida students taking exams at the school’s new state-of-the-art testing facility, which has been meticulously designed to defend against would-be cheaters.

via TheDartmouth.com | Cheating Our Character.

No gum is allowed during an exam: Chewing could disguise a student's speaking into a hands-free cell phone to an accomplice outside.

The 228 computers students use are recessed into desktops so anyone trying to photograph the screen — using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot.

via Colleges use technology to fight tech-savvy students trying to cheat – St. Petersburg Times.

More than 70 per cent of Canadian university freshmen admitted to cheating at least once on high school assignments and another 60 per cent admitted to “serious acts of cheating” on tests. About 20,000 students from 11 post-secondary institutions were surveyed in the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) report, titled Liars, fraudsters and cheats: Dealing with the growth of academic dishonesty.

via Internet blamed for increase in classroom cheating.

In my opinion, Central Florida’s measures are the reasonable end product of putting results before education: “No gum is allowed during an exam: Chewing could disguise a student’s speaking into a hands-free cellphone to an accomplice outside. The 228 computers that students use are recessed into desktops so that anyone trying to photograph the screen — using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot. Scratch paper is allowed — but it is stamped with the date and must be turned in later. When a proctor sees something suspicious, he records the student’s real-time work at the computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of images are burned onto a CD for evidence.”

via The State News : Academic culture breeds cheating.

Aberrant scores on the first part of a three-part test conducted in March caught the attention of national examiners who develop and administer the tests used by state regulators to license optometrists. In May, the North Carolina-based examiners’ group launched a full probe, including visits to the 450-student Boston campus. The investigation revealed that a “significant number of students’’ had engaged in “an organized attempt to memorize confidential, copyrighted exam content in order to reproduce it for use by other students taking future administrations of the exam.’’ More disturbing, the piracy scheme was undertaken “at the request and encouragement of a faculty member,’’ according to the board of examiners..

via Optical collusion – The Boston Globe.

State education officials said Friday that they had eliminated a policy that allowed elementary and middle school teachers to obtain a sneak peek of the tests in the days before they proctored them. Officials said they had grown increasingly concerned about test security.

via No more sneak peeks of state tests for Maryland teachers.

State officials said they changed the practice before this year's Maryland School Assessments after questions arose about whether teachers were reviewing the test for content, which would not be an appropriate use of the booklets.

via State stops allowing teachers to look at MSA booklets before test – Baltimore Sun.

During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Mueller was asked about reports hundreds of agents may have cheated on the exams, which focused on guidelines that limit surveillance, and he responded he did not know the precise number and is not certain the inspector general knows that number.

Mueller said the inspector general has told him about certain FBI offices where testing problems were “widespread, and it may be attributable to a lack of understanding and confusion about procedures.”

via Justice Department reviewing reports of FBI test cheating – CNN.com.