Cheating is meant to subvert the grading process itself. When it is detected, the proper penalty involves canceling academic credit.

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.

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

This story describes one teacher’s experience where his supervisors suggested that students should be given hints during the exam.

On May 23 and 24, the KU Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation will hold its first scholarly conference to focus on using statistical analysis of answers as a way to detect test fraud through patterns of irregularity. Neal Kingston, director of the center, says that the conference will “benefit students by creating a fair system so that everyone is on an equivalent playing field.”

Sixty-seven more Atlanta Public School educators have been barred from the classroom because of their involvement in the district’s cheating scandal.

Gary Rubinstein offers in this thoughtful analysis other manipulations with respect to school performance data that may be as damaging or more than test tampering.

- The army is providing security to prevent the test booklets from being stolen while in transit or during delivery.
- Test booklet “leakage” is a common problem that plagues Pakistan and India.

This analysis done by Education Next suggests that journalists in 2011 created cheating news in addition to reporting it, and that accounts for the increase in the news stories.

Spanish MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa is in trouble with the local police after being taken in for questioning about cheating in an examination for a captain`s recreational yachting licence.