FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he doesn't know how many of his agents cheated on an important test about the limitations of the bureau's powers to conduct surveillance and open cases without evidence that a crime has been committed.
The Justice Department inspector general is investigating whether hundreds of FBI agents cheated on the test — a brewing scandal that could be further embarrassment for the FBI as it continues cleaning up after years of collecting phone records without court approval.
via FBI director defends bureau over test cheating | The Daily Illini.
September 2nd, 2010 in
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The SEC has not issued results in the case of 47 individual papers and is continuing to query another 67 cases of suspected cheating.
Cheating students were caught out in Irish, history, geography, classical studies, French, art, physics, biology, accounting, business and home economics, as well as in the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme and the alternative Leaving Certificate Applied.
In most cases, the penalty applied is the withholding of the results in the subjects involved, but for more serious breaches, such as copying in more than one subject, the ultimate sanction could be debarring a student from repeating the exam.
via Results withheld for 47 caught cheating – Latest News, Education – Independent.ie.
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Technology can be used for good and bad things as seen in Cambodia these days.
Standing in front of a school in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, Than Vichea read out answers over his mobile telephone to his sister who was taking national exams inside.
He was not alone. Even the police deployed outside schools to stop relatives providing answers to the more than 100,000 students who sat the tests last month could not prevent cheating in many of the exam centres.
via Cellphones Used to Cheat by Cambodian Students.
Five judges were caught cheating at a postgraduate Master of Law examination in the state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
Five judges and two other exam candidates were caught when a special team of examination supervisors made a surprise visit to the exam venue at the Arts and Science College at Kakatiya University.
The candidates were caught jotting down answers from law books hidden under their answer sheets, and from slips and pages torn from textbooks.
via Judges Caught Cheating in Law Exam in India – NTDTV.com.
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Around 3,000 candidates suspected of cheating will be subjected to police searches of their phone records, e-mails and money transfers, daily Hürriyet reported Tuesday.
A three-fold investigation has been launched by the Higher Education Board, or YÖK, the State Supervisory Council and the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office in an attempt to apprehend the alleged perpetrators behind alleged inconsistencies on the Public Personnel Selection Examination, or KPSS.
via Turkish authorities to investigate successful KPSS candidates – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review.
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As students return to school this fall, Gov. Sonny Perdue and the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, or GOSA, continue to criticize the work of my company, Caveon Test Security. The governor’s position is misguided with respect to Caveon, but he is calling attention to an ugly reality: Wholesale, organized cheating in some Atlanta public schools occurred and must be addressed. His statements about Caveon, though, do not rest on well-established and scientific cheating detection methods.
via Atlanta schools test analysis was fair, rigorous | ajc.com.
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.
August 12th, 2010 in
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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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