Short article about academic cheating from about.com
Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers. Another six students were implicated in the case.
Wireless devices and palm-sized computers provide many possibilities for cheating in testing situations.
Results of inquiry into the validity of certain physics research papers from Bell Labs. Independent committee finds one researcher committed scientific misconduct and clears the 19 other authors investigated.
Duke University reports that the number of academic integrity violations has surged during this past spring semester.
Now-former Emory University professor and author manipulated and/or falsified information in order to back assertions made in the book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture."
"Prominent Physicist Fired for Faking Data Research: Bell Labs says scientist 'recklessly' misrepresented work on microprocessors."
Result of a six-month investigation.
Donald A. Norman argues that cheating is a natural response to much of what the education system thinks is important.
Open-book exams compared/contrasted with open-internet exams and issues related to cheating via computer. Article by Evan Golub, Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland.
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