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Teachers who confessed to cheating blamed "inordinate pressure" to meet targets set by the district and said they faced severe consequences such as a negative evaluation or termination if they didn't. [7] Prior to the scandal, the APS had been lauded for making significant gains in standardized test scores.
Our teachers taught us sharing is caring, but they probably weren't referring to test answers. CBS reports that, "an entire class at Southgate Thomas J. Anderson High School was caught cheating.
The rise of high-stakes testing and the consequences of the results on the teacher is cited as a reason why a teacher might want to inflate the results of their students. [ 19 ] The first scholarly studies in the 1960s of academic dishonesty in higher education found that nationally in the U.S., somewhere between 50 and 70 percent of college ...
This article was originally featured on Schools.com The consequences of cheating used to instill fear into many a student. But it seems these days, kids just don't care about academic honesty anymore.
Academic integrity means avoiding plagiarism and cheating, among other misconduct behaviours. Academic integrity is practiced in the majority of educational institutions, it is noted in mission statements, policies, [5] [9] [32] procedures, and honor codes, but it is also being taught in ethics classes and being noted in syllabi. Many ...
A student's lawsuit claims retaliation against her after a rumor she was having an affair with a counselor, and the district did nothing to stop it.
The College Board was also criticized for administering the exams during times inconvenient for students outside of the contiguous United States with exams in some countries like Japan and South Korea being scheduled at 3:00 a.m. [13] In response, the College Board has offered free CLEP testing to students overseas who were unsatisfied with ...
Cheating on a test can now cost you millions of dollars—at least, if you're a U.S.-regulated accounting firm. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a U.S. regulator, slapped $7. ...