CHEATINGDETECTION

&PREVENTION

THREE TRUTHS

• EVERYONE TAKES TESTS

• MOST OF US HAVE CHEATED

• WE ALL ARE AFFECTED BY CHEATING

DEFINITION OF CHEATING

1. DEPRIVING OF SOMETHING VALUABLE BY THE USE OF DECEIT OR FRAUD

2. VIOLATING RULES DISHONESTLY (AS AT CARDS OR ON AN EXAMINATION)

MERRIAM-WEBSTER COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY

HOW OFTEN DOES IT OCCUR?

• APPROXIMATELY 1/3 OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-AGED STUDENTS REPORT CHEATING PERSONALLY

• STUDENTS BELIEVE CHEATING BY OTHERS IS EVEN MORE FREQUENT.

• STUDENTS GENERALLY VIEW CHEATING AS A PROBLEM IN THEIR SCHOOLS.

CHEATING IN HIGH

SCHOOL

HAVE YOU EVER CHEATED IN HIGH SCHOOL?

1983

70% YES

1995

78% YES

ATTITUDES AND OPINIONS FROM THE NATION’S HIGH ACHIEVING TEENS: 25TH ANNUAL SURVEY OF HIGH ACHIEVERS

PERCENTAGE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS RESPONDING “YES” TO THE QUESTION “HAVE

YOU CHEATED ON A QUIZ OR TEST?”

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

MALE FEMALE

1993

1994

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

1993 1994

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

PAROCHIAL

PERCENTAGE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS RESPONDING “YES” TO THE QUESTION “HAVE

YOU CHEATED ON A QUIZ OR TEST?”

PERCENTAGE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS RESPONDING “YES” TO THE QUESTION “HAVE

YOU CHEATED ON A QUIZ OR TEST?”

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

URBAN

SUBURBAN

RURAL

HOW COMMON IS CHEATING IN YOUR SCHOOL?

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

1993 1994

NEVER HAPPENS

PRETTY RARE

FAIRLY COMMON

ALMOSTEVERYBODY DOES IT

CHEATING IN COLLEGE

ADMITTED CHEATING IN COLLEGE: 1940s-1970s

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

ADMITTED CHEATING

STUDENT REPORTS OF SPECIFIC CHEATING BEHAVIORS 1961-1991

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Copied from anotherstudent on a test or

exam

Helped anotherstudent to cheat on a

test

used crib notes tocheat on a test or

exam

1961 1991

DID YOU CHEAT DURING YOUR COLLEGE CAREER?

87

74

67

52

Business Students Engineering Students

Science Students Education Students

Meade 1992 Survey of 6,000 students at 31 prestigious universities

PERCEPTIONS OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS

TEACHER, 50.1

STUDENT, 64.3

TEACHER, 70

STUDENT, 71.3

VIEW CHEATING AS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN

THEIR SCHOOL

VIEW CHEATING AS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN

THEIR SCHOOL

MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL

PERCEPTIONS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS 1980

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

DO YOUDISAPPROVE OF

CHEATING?

NEVER FELTGUILTY ABOUT

CHEATING

FELT CHEATING ISA NORMAL PART

OF LIFE

REASONS FOR

CHEATING

HIGH SCHOOL

1938

Desire to get better grades

1962

A. Need to meet external pressures

B. Test/assignment(s) are excessively difficult

C. Test/assignment(s) are excessively easy

D. Some school related tasks seem meaningless

1990

A. Desire to get better grades

B. Test/assignment(s) are excessively difficult

C. Some school related tasks seem meaningless

2000• Marks are more and more necessary for college• Many teachers are unreasonable about

assignments• Some tests are unfair. They don’t cover what

was taught• Too much emphasis on grades rather than on

knowledge obtained• Parents keep pushing. Not satisfied with

anything less than a B

COLLEGE

2000

A. Desire to get better grades

B. Poor instructor

C. Inadequate time to complete test

Teachers with a high rate of cheating in their classes are:

• Unfriendly

• Boring or dull

• Have high expectations for student performance

Top ten reasons for cheating/letting others cheat) (34)

HOW TO CHEAT

THREE WAYS TO CHEAT• CHEATING BY TAKING GIVING OR

RECEIVING INFORMATION FROM OTHERS ex. Looking at someone’s paper during a test

• CHEATING THROUGH THE USE OF FORBIDDEN MATERIALS OR INFORMATION ex. Using a cheat sheet/crib notes

• CHEATING BY CIRCUMVENTING THE PROCESS OF ASSESSMENT ex. Arranging to take a test at a time other than the regularly scheduled time

GIVING TAKING RECEIVING

1. Look at another student’s test paper answer sheet or work during a test

2. Drops test so another student can look at it

3. Two students drop tests at different times so they can exchange papers

4. Flying V or Power Wedge5. Communicate with Sign Language

(M&Ms)

6. Share an eraser (or other permissible item) with answers written on them

7. Devise a code for transmitting answers and a method for doing so. (Clicking pens,taps of foot, position of hands on desk. T/F pencil/foot/head (41)

8. High tech version of above using lazer pointer

9. Female – compact mirror to adjust contact lense (sneak a peak at the test behind her)

10. The long walk to freedom. Sit in the rear of the room

11. Same as walk to freedom only use time discussig problem with the instructor to take a peak at exams handed in already.

12. Sitting by a window or door. Whisper questions/pass notes to get answers from a person outside the window/door who uses notes or text to locate answers.

13. Fast taking test taker writes as many answers as he/she can on a scrap of paper/eraser and drops it by the desk of another student when they get up to hand in their test.

14. Invisible ink. (42)

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FORBIDDEN MATERIALS