Using Text Messaging To Cheat?

[Lancecastor]

Cheating students busted for cell text messaging

Forget crib sheets. High-tech college students have found a new way to cheat. Six University of Maryland students admitted last week that they used their cell phones to find answers during a test.

Twelve total students were accused in the January bust. The students got the answers through the text messaging function used by a willing outside accomplice, who accessed internet answer keys posted just after the exam began. Business school professors, smelling a scam, actually orchestrated a sting. They posted several fake answers, and tracked down the students according to who fell into the trap.

While Maryland has noted isolated high-tech cheating problems before, the university says it had never encountered cell phone-enabled scam on this scale. A similar case at Japan’s Hitotsubashi University last winter resulted in 26 failing grades.

The six guilty students will all fail the class, while the five who still stand accused will face an honor council trial or meet with school officials. The final suspected student passed away over winter break.

The school says it nonetheless has no plans to bar cell phones from being brought to class.

 

[Spinaroonie]

It happened at my school before I got here. What they do now is that they confiscate cell phones, pagers, Palm Pilots before you enter an exam. If it goes offand it's an emergency they'll find you. If you get caught with one that you didn't turn it, it's assumed you're cheating.

 

[watergirl]

UMD does not impress me.

Allowing cell phones, given this cheating problem, seems to suggest that if you can't ban the phones, at least improve testing supervision, by instructors and teaching assistants giving a damn.

The people in their payroll department are incompetent fucktards.

Their latest batch of theater department students have the newest latest greatest technology and facilities, and are spoon fed. Although some of their recent grads are out in the working world, I don't see them making good impressions.

I'm curious to see if I get flamed for these obnoxious statements.

 

[427cobra]

Cheating students busted for cell text messaging

Forget crib sheets. High-tech college students have found a new way to cheat. Six University of Maryland students admitted last week that they used their cell phones to find answers during a test.

Twelve total students were accused in the January bust. The students got the answers through the text messaging function used by a willing outside accomplice, who accessed internet answer keys posted just after the exam began. Business school professors, smelling a scam, actually orchestrated a sting. They posted several fake answers, and tracked down the students according to who fell into the trap.

While Maryland has noted isolated high-tech cheating problems before, the university says it had never encountered cell phone-enabled scam on this scale. A similar case at Japan’s Hitotsubashi University last winter resulted in 26 failing grades.

The six guilty students will all fail the class, while the five who still stand accused will face an honor council trial or meet with school officials. The final suspected student passed away over winter break.

The school says it nonetheless has no plans to bar cell phones from being brought to class.

That's damned clever. I like that one. It's got style, kinda James Bondish. If you can't win one way try another. My hats off to `em.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Auto expulsion in my opinion, no excuses, if's, and's or but's, no pass go , no money back.

they fucked up, now they should get fucked.

thats my twocents worth, regardless of high tech cheating, or low tech, expulsion, no do oevers

 

[watergirl]

Todd-o, I"m with ya... cheat, you cheat yourself, and you do dishonor to those with integrity. If they are caught, I think they should flunk.

 

[427cobra]

Nah, it's called original thinking. Creativity in the face of adversity, impovisation, finding a defferent way to solve a problem. It's only cheating if you get caught........it's not particually wrong, though. If it were me I'd just laugh at the honor council bullshit.

 

[Agent99]

So you'd be okay with burglars who figured out how to bypass and circumvent every security measure you had in your home? You'd laugh about it and congratulate them?

Because, according to you, it's okay if they don't get caught. I sure would hate to be your insurance underwriter!

 

[427cobra]

So you'd be okay with burglars who figured out how to bypass and circumvent every security measure you had in your home? You'd laugh about it and congratulate them?

Because, according to you, it's okay if they don't get caught. I sure would hate to be your insurance underwriter!

I applaud people who come up creative solutions to problems. On the burglarly subject, that's what guns are for. Besides, it'd force me to think about house security more, call it a game and I love a challenge.

 

[Agent99]

I applaud people who come up creative solutions to problems.

I would agree if we were talking about something like engineering or architectural problems. Or mechanical, logistical, environmental or any number of legitimate problems.

I am having a difficult time understanding why you find humor in criminality. Do you sincerely believe that it is acceptable for students to cheat?

 

[teddybear4play]

You really can't blame it on incompetent professors when many intro-level courses have dozens, if not hundreds, of students.

Jeez, cheaters are lazy nowadays. In my day, we had to look over someone else's shoulder. But these kids with their newfangled toys . . . punks.

TB4p

 

[427cobra]

I would agree if we were talking about something like engineering or architectural problems. Or mechanical, logistical, environmental or any number of legitimate problems.

I am having a difficult time understanding why you find humor in criminality. Do you sincerely believe that it is acceptable for students to cheat?

There's humor to be found in everything, you;ve just got to look for it. Perhaps it's a way of looking for the positive. Besides, I never said criminality was funny. I said I like challenge and being forced to think in different ways. Sometimes it takes a harsh even to force that upon oneself.

Do I believe it's acceptable? It never enters into my mind. There's more than one way to do things. There's an ongoing trend that says there's only one way to do things, the quote un quote appropriate way. Sorry I don't work like that. Those kids should be rewarded for original thinking, then told not to do it again.

 

[Agent99]

Well, thank you for replying. It's an answer... not a good one, but an answer nonetheless, 427Cobra.

Of course, I disagree. You seemed to be saying exactly that (finding humor in criminality) when you mentioned that you would laugh at the honor council. You feel that using technology to cheat is a creative way to solve a problem. The problem of what? Getting out of studying? Learning?

I don't even get what you mean by the statement that there is "more than one way to do things." We're talking about deceit, trickery and being dishonest.

What I really don't get is why these discussions always start just when I am ready for bed! Oh well. I certainly don't want to cheat sleep.

 

[Lasz]

Good idea I should try this now!

J/K

I think they should simply ask all students to turn off their cell phones just like the movie theatre. If you have your cell phone on it is considered cheating. I know it wont fix the problem that much because their is no way to monitor this, but it is a step.

 

[Lancecastor]

Well, thank you for replying. It's an answer... not a good one, but an answer nonetheless, 427Cobra.

Of course, I disagree. You seemed to be saying exactly that (finding humor in criminality) when you mentioned that you would laugh at the honor council. You feel that using technology to cheat is a creative way to solve a problem. The problem of what? Getting out of studying? Learning?

I don't even get what you mean by the statement that there is "more than one way to do things." We're talking about deceit, trickery and being dishonest.

What I really don't get is why these discussions always start just when I am ready for bed! Oh well. I certainly don't want to cheat sleep.

A certain number of university students cheat on exams...some recycle papers...some universities are known for it, some professors are known to be easy to fool, some frats devise systems to slide through courses collectively, some football players slide at the request of their coaches.

It's all part of university..*****...just like the 2% grub worm allowable limit in your Bran Flakes or the 4% assumption for "shrinkage" of inventory from shoplifting at many retail stores.

To suggest that university kids cheating on tests is "criminal" is an overstatement and a gross misrepresentation of what society recognizes as "youthful hijinx"...it's even a valid legal defence, used all the time when engineering students "liberate" a city bus and put it on the roof of the Factulty Club.

Laughing at the Honour Society is something most every rebellious university whippersnapper dreams of...though few actually get to do it.

I can assure you that each time I got summoned to the Dean's office...once a year, every year, minimum...I was always most contrite.

"Yes, I realize that putting pigs in the faculty lounge wasn't funny sir. Yes I realize you can expel me. It won't happen again sir. Yes I know I said that last year...but that was about the banner over the Women's Residence, sir. Yes sir. No sir...."