ERIC Number: EJ709349
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Publication Date: 2005-Jan-1
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Research: A Nation of Cheats
Bracey, Gerald W.
Phi Delta Kappan, v86 n5 p412 Jan 2005
When Gerald W. Bracey heard that John Fremer, a long-time friend and Educational Testing Service psychometrician, had retired and now worked for Caveon.com, a firm dedicated to detecting cheating, Bracey was amused. Snooping for cheats seemed like a trivial pursuit compared to the lofty testing enterprises he had undertaken at ETS. No more. Bracey did not realize how much of a problem cheating has become. On National Public Radio's "Diane Rehm Show" last March, Howard Gardner of Harvard University observed that 75% of high school students admitted to having cheated on a test. As Gardner noted then, it doesn't seem likely that students would admit to cheating if they had not. This article discusses Bracey's examination on cheating, along with statistics.
Descriptors: Ethics, Achievement Tests, Student Evaluation, High School Students, Cheating, Personality Traits, Internet
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