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.

The university is now in the process of creating an academic impropriety database that will permanently keep record of all infractions of students currently enrolled in classes. This database will include any and all reported improprieties that violate the universities policies.

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.

a newspaper filmed examiners telling teachers which subjects were likely to come up and even which questions to expect. The evidence from the videos is indesputable and clearly shows examiners explaining to educators their blatant disregard for fairness.

- Oklahoma University is using clickers in the classroom for taking quizzes and attendance.
- The clicker can be abused to falsify attendance and to cheat. It’s only one click away. Just like many other illicit behaviors that are within reach.

A study suggests that cheating is a function of being able to rationalize behavior and that creative people will cheat when they can rationalize their behavior.

- Evidently, grades as old as 2004 were hacked and changed to a better grade between June 2010 and July 2011. There is no other information given, but one wonders who received these “improved” grades and why.
- There are three major types of exam fraud: collusion, cheating, and tampering. This is a case of tampering.

-”Though with regard to the cheating I have to say it’s an extremely marginal activity”
-”So it’s, it’s really our fault, isn’t it, in a way. … We’re doing it [boiling education down to a single number]. And then we’re using that number, I think, quite inappropriately”

The transition from physical test centers to online testing has been fairly seamless at WGU. It has saved students from many hassles such as taking time off work or securing babysitters. In fact, it is so popular that WGU administers about 80% of 10,000 exams per month using Webassessor from Kryterion (http://www.kryteriononline.com/delivery_options/online_proctoring/).

For at least six years, the dean of admissions at the University of Illinois College of Law manipulated the score distribution. He was so successful that last year the Class of 2014 was touted by the college as “the most academically distinguished” in school history. His success and greed (he doubled his salary in seven years) were ultimately responsible for his demise.