Honor codes are meant to enhance student integrity and ensure colleges are regarded as communities of ethics-driven students. When honor codes permit non proctored exams, it doesn’t always work as the Middlebury Honor Code Review from last year[...]

An article in Harvard Business Review reflects on the usability and ultimate value of degrees as credentials. The debate has been raging on for ages. Some would argue that credentials such as degrees shouldn’t be the benchmark by which candidates[...]

Some would argue that creative thinkers are more likely to cheat as both creativity and cheating are often driven by rule-breaking or doing something outside of what is considered normal.

Can cheating among students be reduced if students are given the right motivation not to? When students cheat it’s considered the student’s fault. People rarely trace cheating back to teacher failure or inadequacy of approach. James M. Lang,[...]

In the last 7 years 1,600 individual academic integrity violations have been reported at the Illinois University. The frequency of academic integrity breaches has had many professors take the matter in their hands and implement more rigorous[...]

The Honor Committee at the University of Virginia approved a non-binding ballot resolution in which students are to cast their vote on whether they prefer proctored or non-proctored exams. The University of Virginia is not new to non-proctored[...]

After cheating allegations by a sailor who revealed the circulation of exam answers between trainers and trainees on nuclear reactor, the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command prompted an investigation. So far, more than 20 people are said to be[...]

Do you believe it’s possible for someone to sit in on an exam or test, impersonating a student or test taker over 500 times?

In 2010, Noyes Education Campus principal, Adell Cothorne, instantly gets the word out regarding a cheating incident where teachers were erasing and correcting students’ test answers arbitrarily. The District of Columbia Schools chancellor learns[...]

Students at Scottish Universities, including Glasgow and Aberdeen, developed resourceful exam-cheating methods. An undergraduate students had answers written on tissue paper and then checked them in the university’s toilets. According to Daily[...]