SAT Canceled for South Korea, Due to Cheating
The latest administration of the SAT has been canceled in South Korea, due to allegations of widespread cheating. The nation is known for its “hyper-competitive academic environment.”
Test questions that were on the exam scheduled for May 4 were circulating in test prep centers. Staff members at some test prep centers were detained for questioning.
Thousands of students were affected.
The article says:
“Though academic cheating is a world-wide concern, high-profile scandals over unfairly earned or bogus
Test questions that were on the exam scheduled for May 4 were circulating in test prep centers. Staff members at some test prep centers were detained for questioning.
Thousands of students were affected.
The article says:
“Though academic cheating is a world-wide concern, high-profile scandals over unfairly earned or bogus
Joe Bower: Do I Work for Students or for Data?
Joe Bower teaches in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. He blogs at http://www.joebower.org.
He wrote this for us:
DO I SERVE YOU OR ARE YOU TO SUPPORT ME?
As a classroom teacher, I spend the majority of my time working with students while they are still learning, so I have an intense understanding for how important it is for kids to be engaged in learning by doing projects that are in a context and for a purpose.
Without the information (read: observations) that I gather from such projects, I could not call myself a teacher,
He wrote this for us:
DO I SERVE YOU OR ARE YOU TO SUPPORT ME?
As a classroom teacher, I spend the majority of my time working with students while they are still learning, so I have an intense understanding for how important it is for kids to be engaged in learning by doing projects that are in a context and for a purpose.
Without the information (read: observations) that I gather from such projects, I could not call myself a teacher,
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