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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

This Week In Education Tests: No Way To Be Certain About Cheating "Explosion"

This Week In Education

Tests: No Way To Be Certain About Cheating "Explosion"

Retro-Mario-in-3D-flavor"As always when we talk with journalists about this controversial issue, I was careful to note that there is no way to be certain that the actual volume of cheating cases has grown rather than the percentage that has been reported," writes FairTest's Bob Schaeffer in an email today. "The language I typically use is 'We can't be sure what portion of 'the iceberg' we are looking at.'"
"However, based on the number of cases that have been investigated, confirmed, and covered in the media, there has been an "explosion" in the past several years, at least a tripling and probably much more in the annual