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Saturday, July 23, 2005
If you're a school in New York and you hire a former seminarian with a history of exposing prominent plagiarists and then trying to get the Pulitzer Prizes for Alex Haley, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and David McCullough revoked, it might not be a good idea to try to commit massive fraud on the Regents' Exam in front of him. And retaliating against the teacher for blowing the whistle is also a bad idea. That is what happened when Philip Nobile, who had exposed plagiarism by those three authors was teaching at a school in New York. The school's administrator who was apparently masterminding the cheating retaliated against him, but he persisted and now she's had to resign and he's received tenure.
It sounds like part of the problem is having the exams graded locally at the school where teachers and administrators have an incentive to give higher grades. I'm not from New York and don't know if this is the common procedure for grading the Regents' but it seems ripe for cheating.
Of course, there can also be cheating when the school administrator responsible for giving the exam and protecting the answer sheet gives the multiple choice answers to his son who then writes the answers on his hand. Again, why is the answer key given to an administrator at the school? In North Carolina, no one at the school has access to the answer key or to grading the essays on our state tests. Those are all graded off-site and the essays are graded by people who don't know the students. That is the only fair way.
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If you're a school in New York and you hire a former seminarian with a history of exposing prominent plagiarists and then trying to get the Pulitzer Prizes for Alex Haley, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and David McCullough revoked, it might not be a good idea to try to commit massive fraud on the Regents' Exam in front of him. And retaliating against the teacher for blowing the whistle is also a bad idea. That is what happened when Philip Nobile, who had exposed plagiarism by those three authors was teaching at a school in New York. The school's administrator who was apparently masterminding the cheating retaliated against him, but he persisted and now she's had to resign and he's received tenure.
It sounds like part of the problem is having the exams graded locally at the school where teachers and administrators have an incentive to give higher grades. I'm not from New York and don't know if this is the common procedure for grading the Regents' but it seems ripe for cheating.
Of course, there can also be cheating when the school administrator responsible for giving the exam and protecting the answer sheet gives the multiple choice answers to his son who then writes the answers on his hand. Again, why is the answer key given to an administrator at the school? In North Carolina, no one at the school has access to the answer key or to grading the essays on our state tests. Those are all graded off-site and the essays are graded by people who don't know the students. That is the only fair way.
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If you're a school in New York and you hire a former seminarian with a history of exposing prominent plagiarists and then trying to get the Pulitzer Prizes for Alex Haley, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and David McCullough revoked, it might not be a good idea to try to commit massive fraud on the Regents' Exam in front of him. And retaliating against the teacher for blowing the whistle is also a bad idea. That is what happened when Philip Nobile, who had exposed plagiarism by those three authors was teaching at a school in New York. The school's administrator who was apparently masterminding the cheating retaliated against him, but he persisted and now she's had to resign and he's received tenure.
It sounds like part of the problem is having the exams graded locally at the school where teachers and administrators have an incentive to give higher grades. I'm not from New York and don't know if this is the common procedure for grading the Regents' but it seems ripe for cheating.
Of course, there can also be cheating when the school administrator responsible for giving the exam and protecting the answer sheet gives the multiple choice answers to his son who then writes the answers on his hand. Again, why is the answer key given to an administrator at the school? In North Carolina, no one at the school has access to the answer key or to grading the essays on our state tests. Those are all graded off-site and the essays are graded by people who don't know the students. That is the only fair way.
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