Comments on: Cheating Epidemic in Education – Part 2

By: Brennan

Brennan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:30:21 +0000

Yes, Monica,

I truly believe there is cheating going on everywhere, but, as you shared, organizations that are ethical will weed out cheaters, eventually, if not immediately.

Thank you for your comment.
Brennan

By: medical transcription california

medical transcription california — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:39:03 +0000

Copying in exams is wrong, whichever way you look at it. When I was learning medical transcription, we had students cheating there too. But in my organization, such students weren’t considered.

Monica

By: Brennan

Brennan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:35:00 +0000

To RickH,

I agree that we have allowed testing to replace teaching in our schools. Federal money tied to test results (as I’ve mentioned about No Child Left Behind in numerous posts) is a sure path to fraud.

We must implement programs that stop this false reliance on testing and truly start teaching students to think – and not just how to cleverly cheat on tests.

Thanks for your comment!

By: RickH

RickH — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:19:10 +0000

Cheating is the other side of the fanatical testing coin. When testing becomes little more than a way to grade sausages it is no wonder that people lose respect for it.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:32:38 +0000

Excellent comments, Guys

@ Charly . . . I’m inclined to agree that more vocational training is probably part of the answer. Kids are under more real and artificial pressure to succeed and the amount of info they are expected to absorb is astounding. It would be beneficial to stop this unrealistic expectation that every high school graduate is college bound.
Perhaps with more vocational training we’d stop the rising drop-out rate also.

@ Darlene . . . Yep! The consequences are already showing up. And as for homeschooling, there is a big battle going on in California now to limit homeschooling to only homes where the parent has a teaching certificate. And with the new curriculum in California public schools, most evangelical families have turned to homeschooling. This is a furor that we will be hearing MUCH MORE about!

Appreciate your thoughts very much!

By: Darlene Norris

Darlene Norris — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:12:07 +0000

What can be done at this point? Probably not much. We’re going to reap the consequences of what we’ve been sowing for the last 40 years. Integrity seems to be a value that’s fallen by the wayside. Homeschooling is the only answer if you want to raise kids who know the difference between right and wrong. They sure won’t learn it in the public schools.

By: Charly

Charly — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:28:58 +0000

Cheating is a real concern. Knowledge is power and gives you options. I would hate to think that I am being treated by a Doctor who didn’t actually sit the exams or being represented by a lawyer in the same situation!

However, the pressure that is put upon children of today to excel academically because of Government funding etc is amazing.

Vocational training and outcome based assessment may part of the answer.