University students are reaching new heights – or lows? – of laziness – or ingenuity? – with a special task force having uncovered an increasing number of students worldwide who are paying other people to sit their exams.
Amongst the findings of the report was the fact that shit is getting sophisticated. I.e. while biometric identification forms can be used to prevent identity fraud, ways of bypassing these (such as fingerprint film) are already in common use.
The report outlined no less than 19 different ways students were cheating, including: buying ghost written papers, faking medical certificates, bringing in unauthorised material, plagiarism, and even down to the fairly mundane occurrence of significantly helping a mate on their individual assignment.
The chair of Sydney University’s academic board, associate professor Peter McCallum said he suspects “under detection” of cheaters and that the board was “relieved” to discover international students and local students were just as likely to cheat. “That was a comfort because it would be have been a difficult situation for us if it had been a different outcome,” he said.
across the
University are classed as ‘negligent’ plagiarism (about 53% in 2014), wherein students did not “seem not to
understand the correct ways to cite and reference material that is not their own.”
The report continued: “The problem of cheating in exams is not trivial – a study on multiple choice exams within the university revealed an average cheating level of about 5%.” Meaning a full 95% of people are aware of Bill Watterson‘s work.
via SMH.
