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.

Eighty-four percent of students at a public research university believe students who cheat should be punished, yet two of every three admit to having cheated themselves. Most of the cheating students admit to involves homework, not tests, and they see academic misconduct applying differently to those two kinds of work.

The Chinese have a perception problem that they need to deal with. The problem is that people in America think all Chinese are getting into American universities by cheating.

Instead of severely punishing the girl, the teacher sat her down while the other kids went to recess and had a long “adult” conversation about doing the right thing.

A teacher and principal confessed to “unintentionally violating testing protocol.” Those who rescored the tests discovered that 44% had been given scores that were too high.

The story highlights the fact that if you want to administer exams securely, you can do it. Just don’t expect to do it for free. Security costs.

Inside the applied DNA sciences lab at Stony Brook University researchers are hard at work inventing and perfecting a system that can prevent cheating on SAT and ACT exams.

Recently, CNN uncovered a practice among radiology residents of memorizing and sharing exam questions from the radiology exam. This in-depth story provides a hard look at the seamier underbelly of cheating by medical professionals.

The story illustrates the adage that security is more easily breached when inside than when outside the organization.

That’s the question that China needs to answer. Allegations and rumors suggest that the exam content of the recently administered English exam was available on the Internet. The allegations appear to be credible.