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ERIC Number: EJ709349
Record Type: Journal
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.
Phi Delta Kappa International, Inc., 408 N. Union St., P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789. Web site: http://www.pdkintl.org.
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Language: English
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