1. What common high-tech cheating procedures does Kim Clark mention?
Apart from copying & pasting from Wikipedia and similar pages, students scan Coca-cola labels with the nutritional information, and manipulate them with Photoshop so that the teacher does not realize they have copied it.
2. At what levels does hi-tech cheating usually occur?
Usually at high-school level, more than at a college level, where students are less likely to cheat (as they are paying for their studies, cheating is considered nonsense)
3. What percentage of current students have admitted to cheating at least once in their lives?
40%
4. What was the percentage of cheating students back in the 1940s?
Only about 20%
5. What is the main reason why hi-tech cheating has increased in recent years?
Students are so good at technology that it's very tempting to take out a cell phone, hide behind another student and use it to cheat. They can store lots of books and extra stuff and use them in exams.
6. What are educators doing in order to fight hi-tech cheating?
They are also using technology. For instance, the use of special software that electronically compares papers that are sent by the students so that they cannot steal ideas from other documents.
7. Who is winning this ‘war’, educators or students?
Professors and educators are.
8. What methods are being used in order to control cheating in online tests?
They are using webcams to control online cheating, software to block internet access to other websites while taking the exams, etc.
9. According to researchers, what is one of the reasons why students cheat?
Students find tests boring and tests are not really reflective of the real world.
10. What suggestion is made in order to prevent students from cheating?
To design more realistic tests so that students enjoy the tasks.
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