China Cracks Down on Cheating Before College-Entrance Exam

June 6, 2011, 11:53 am

Chinese police have detained 62 people for selling two-way radios and other electronic devices to cheat on the gaokao, the nation’s college-entrance exam, reports the Associated Press.

This week some nine-million high-school students are to take the highly competitive test, which largely decides where students will study—and in some sense their future. Last year, China’s education ministry—and a number of provinces and universities—was trying to change that equation by encouraging universities to design their own assessment to identify candidates.

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copesan

Wow. Talk about being treated like a member of the servant class! The only bright side to this story is that someone actually noticed that the adjunct existed. But what an awful story. Did the author ever get a notice or contract that stated that not missing class for any reason would result in pay being docked?
ctgrant

Students have a right to know where their money is going–or not going. I tell my students on the first day of class that from each of them I will receive $85 and assure them they will get their money’s worth–in spades. This is not asking them to rally–it is simply stating it like it is.
mindnbodybuilding

You can spin it however you want but I still think it’s tacky. The first day of class, fall or spring, should be filled with anticipation, no? I see it in the faces of my students every semester on the first day and I’ve been doing this for 18 years. I love that! Not just anticipation but expectation and perhaps a little bit of wonder if the delivery is spot on. Why cheapen that by putting a price tag on it?
http://stevenlberg.wordpress.com/ Steven L. Berg

Whenever I cover class for an adjunct/part-time faculty member, I can send an e-mail to the Dean informing her that I am doing this as a professional courtesy. As a result, my colleague’s pay is not docked because I am not being paid to cover the class.
spinnaker

Yeah, you’re old fashioned. Like, sixty years old. Before adjunctification.
Students are being cheated. That’s part of it.
There used to be a professor working across the hall from me who would bitch me out if I came to work sick. I guess he was afraid of airborne germs. He had been the dean previously, too, so he knew I would pay the price for canceling.
These anecdotes provide more evidence of how acceptable it is, some places, to believe that some people’s lives are not important.
spinnaker

If you call in sick as a bartender or retail person, they have to find someone to replace you, and pay him. In the example above, the college gets a windfall profit when the professor cancels. This is sleazy.
fritzc

They had no choice of course. What might have happened to the secretary if she (or he) had not followed procedure and docked your pay? A no win situation.
art_adjunct

this is one of the greatest injustices of being an adjunct.

To dock the pay for missing one class suggests that an adjuncts work begins and ends during the scheduled class time.
as we all know, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

the pay is already insulting and barely livable… to take ANY of it away is just rubbing salt in the wound. (remember in grad school when the roads were paved with gold? … i miss those days.)

the cruel irony is that as adjuncts, we have no benefits and cannot afford to go to the doctor in case we do get very sick.
millerjwm955

Really. You know first hand of cheating only at minority schools. Really.
proflee

I needed an ID when I took the GRE in the mid-eighties.
proflee

Whoops, I meant to reply to Fbrusca
alheger

As much as I don’t like standardized testing (and suck at it, personally), my scores were telling of my strengths and weaknesses. Luckily, the school I went to, like most universities, don’t just take your ACT/SAT scores into consideration. Even if your score is lower than what the college is “looking for”, students should apply anyways. Colleges actually work harder than you think to look beyond the score.

What I’m really concerned about here, though, is how this sets up yet another obstacle for students who have no help in navigating or affording this system. This process is so convoluted, it stands as obstacle for students who do not have the means to navigate the registration or payment processes. It may sound silly, and yes I know there are fee waivers for both of these tests for students that qualify for reduced and/or free lunch, but having an ID? Being required to upload a picture? These requirements cost additional money that some students may just not have access to. The idea of finding ways to complete this process without money, transportation, a reliable internet connection or way to take or even upload photos is scary. Especially those of us who didn’t grow up in the suburbs.

ID = $25
Bus pass to the library to upload picture = $3
Risk in not being allowed to upload a picture onto a library’s computer = High
nontraditional001

you’ve made some rather broad unsubstantiated claims about grading and teacher conduct. i’d say grades, extracurricular activities, career goals, etc. should be considered over standardized test scores.
icbomber23

But again, those are not the same. Some classes (and teachers) are more challenging than others. That’s not unsubstantiated. It’s common sense.
newyorkyankees

What real life skill does one get by taking the SAT? Is one to assume that a low SAT score automatically condemns someone to a second class existence or below average career?

I think that all of us who has posted on this issue know at least one person who had a lousy SAT score and still did very well in life. I admit, my own SAT score was a joke, but I also don’t recall any of my graduate school applications asking for my SAT score, either.
http://twitter.com/CollegeHelp101 TheCollegeHelper

Some colleges, particularly DePaul University in Chicago, are now moving away from requiring students to submit their standardized test scores with their applications. Students who opt not to submit their SAT scores are required to submit additional college admissions essays.
nontraditional001

sounds like a step in the right direction