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Agreed. And this article could just as easily be run with the headline "Schools do almost nothing to stop known cheating" which would make for more bad press.

ethanbond 10y ago
And what exactly should they do? Require students to bring two forms of ID to each test? Require students to sit in Faraday cages during exams? Isolation rooms? A school can't prevent cheating outright and it's lame to act like it's the school's fault when American and European students understand just fine that cheating is simply wrong and disallowed. If a student wants to cheat, s/he will cheat. The fact that there's an entire industry built around one culture's penchant for doing so seems to imply that maybe that culture is the problem.
- studentrob 10y ago
  > And what exactly should they do? Require students to bring two forms of ID to each test? Require students to sit in Faraday cages during exams? Isolation rooms? The first article in this series talks about how the SAT is being gamed overseas [1]. The article makes a strong case that a unique copy of the SAT should be administered each time the test is given. As it is right now, the College Board / ETS reuses the tests to some degree. This 3 minute video is a good summary of the situation [2] The podcast How to Game the SAT is also enlightening [3] There are people working on this problem. There is also an alternate test called ACT which has stricter requirements for testing in China. Supposedly, the College Board, which creates and administers the SAT, is afraid that if it gives the SAT less often then it will give up market-share to the ACT test. There could be a real opportunity here for some startup that can help either of these testing agencies securely administer tests overseas. The SAT cancelled a test date in January due to concerns the test they were going to use had already been released on the internet. Then they gave a test in March and found its questions on the internet hours afterwards. I imagine we'll see more updates from these reporters in the coming months / years. It's a tough problem. [1] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/ http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s... [2] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one#video-SAT http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s... [3] https://soundcloud.com/reuters/howtogamethesat https://soundcloud.com/reuters/howtogamethesat

ethanbond 10y ago

And what exactly should they do? Require students to bring two forms of ID to each test? Require students to sit in Faraday cages during exams? Isolation rooms? A school can't prevent cheating outright and it's lame to act like it's the school's fault when American and European students understand just fine that cheating is simply wrong and disallowed. If a student wants to cheat, s/he will cheat. The fact that there's an entire industry built around one culture's penchant for doing so seems to imply that maybe that culture is the problem.

studentrob 10y ago
> And what exactly should they do? Require students to bring two forms of ID to each test? Require students to sit in Faraday cages during exams? Isolation rooms? The first article in this series talks about how the SAT is being gamed overseas [1]. The article makes a strong case that a unique copy of the SAT should be administered each time the test is given. As it is right now, the College Board / ETS reuses the tests to some degree. This 3 minute video is a good summary of the situation [2] The podcast How to Game the SAT is also enlightening [3] There are people working on this problem. There is also an alternate test called ACT which has stricter requirements for testing in China. Supposedly, the College Board, which creates and administers the SAT, is afraid that if it gives the SAT less often then it will give up market-share to the ACT test. There could be a real opportunity here for some startup that can help either of these testing agencies securely administer tests overseas. The SAT cancelled a test date in January due to concerns the test they were going to use had already been released on the internet. Then they gave a test in March and found its questions on the internet hours afterwards. I imagine we'll see more updates from these reporters in the coming months / years. It's a tough problem. [1] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/ http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s... [2] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one#video-SAT http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s... [3] https://soundcloud.com/reuters/howtogamethesat https://soundcloud.com/reuters/howtogamethesat