Tag: cheat

Test Security Trends: China toughens up penalties for exam cheats

Posted on 05/16/12 by Caveon No Comments
China

The Ministry of Education on Monday issued amended rules concerning punishments for cheating on national exams in response to a growing trend of using technology to cheat on the tests.

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Test Security Trends: Denmark administers cheat-proof exams and let students access the Internet while taking tests

Posted on 05/16/12 by Caveon No Comments
Testing

The idea is that when exams measure performance through analysis of information, the ability to find facts is not that helpful.

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“CHEATING RAGE” — Enraged friends named murderers by dying teacher for refusing to allow cheating on exam

Posted on 04/17/12 by Caveon No Comments
Motorcycle

Evidently, the friends stopped the teacher who was on his motorcycle and demanded that he allow their friend to cheat. After refusing the request, the friends ran over the teacher with their car. A police officer took the dying man’s statement on the scene.

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After waiting more than a decade, police officers accused of cheating still cannot get promoted

Posted on 04/17/12 by Caveon No Comments
Police Jacket

Cheating accusations and evidence are not always clear cut or dealt with promptly. In the story below, seven police officers who were accused of cheating in the 1990′s are suing to get promoted and receive back pay. The union isn’t buying the story.

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Florida school officials say checks are in place to ensure test cheats don’t prosper

Posted on 04/17/12 by Caveon No Comments
Multi-Tool

- The AJC analysis of suspicious test scores suggesting cheating in 200 school districts continues to generate responses.
- In the article below, Florida DOE states they have the tools to prevent and punish cheating.

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Cheating Detection Trends: Hidden document markers catch 97 students cheating (about 40% of the class)

Posted on 04/09/12 by Caveon No Comments
Florida Gator

The Computer Science professor told the students that markers were in the files and that they should not cheat. If they cheated, they would be caught. They cheated despite being warned. Some students are upset. They think it is unfair that they were caught but students in earlier semesters were not.

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Test Security Trends: What do you think? Is it time to “Test Naked?”

Posted on 04/09/12 by Caveon No Comments
Dalit Caste

This article has ethnicity-based discrimination implications. Evidently, the Dalit caste in India is one of the lowest. The two women exam proctors forcibly stripped two teenage girls in front of the opposite gender because they suspected the girls had concealed cheat sheets.

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City rules allow cheating on fire exams in Portland

Posted on 04/02/12 by Caveon No Comments
firefighter fail

City Commissioner Randy Leonard today released the results of an investigation into whether firefighters cheated on the promotional exams that govern their advancement and compensation.

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Cheating parents who enroll children into prestigious UK schools may be prosecuted

Posted on 04/02/12 by Caveon No Comments
Ilkley Grammar

The cheating happens by falsifying the child’s address. Instead of providing the actual home address, the address of a relative who lives with the school boundaries is used.

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Superintendent resigns and principal fired over athlete’s scholarship awarded by grade-fixing

Posted on 03/30/12 by Caveon No Comments
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Joe Cipp, Jr. resigned Wednesday as superintendent of the South Country Central School District in Long Island over an alleged grade-fixing scandal that earned a former student an NCAA scholarship to Syracuse University.

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