Students across the state of Florida recently shared writing prompt questions on social media. The writing section prompt of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) can be easily obtained by following related hash tags on Twitter.
Udacity one of the top MOOC providers is now focusing on providing learning opportunities for people wishing to equip themselves with high-demand digital skills. Apart from providing free online courses, Udacity is now offering advanced skills that[...]
24 medical students at the University of Adelaide, Australia, were implicated in a cheating scandal involving iPads. The 14 fifth-year medicine students admitted their participation and 10 others were discovered after the University performed a[...]
A Purdue University student, who looked like a diligent, hard-working student rarely attended class and still managed to get A’s. How did this happen? Roy Sun found it easier to hack into a computer than to attend classes and study for exams. After[...]
Have exams become the sole barometer of our competencies and knowledge? As students’ grades are tied to high-stakes tests, students come to fear tests because every failure or underperformance can have significant repercussions, in terms of grade[...]
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[...]