There are those students that seem to always have there eyes wondering on someone else's paper. I see this alot at my school; students go to great lengths to pass a test. If students are just going to cheat of another student's test then the whole point of seeing what a student can do is thrown out of the window because you're seeing one student's work possibly three times. Fairtest.org says “ attaching high stakes to test results increases cheating and other efforts to boost scores without eduactinal quality”. Why test on something that is only going to be cheated on. I'm not saying everybody cheats on these test but what kid doesn't take a look at someone else's paper to make sure their answer is correct? Im guilty of looking over; I know I have looked over many times to see if I was right on an
There are those students that seem to always have there eyes wondering on someone else's paper. I see this alot at my school; students go to great lengths to pass a test. If students are just going to cheat of another student's test then the whole point of seeing what a student can do is thrown out of the window because you're seeing one student's work possibly three times. Fairtest.org says “ attaching high stakes to test results increases cheating and other efforts to boost scores without eduactinal quality”. Why test on something that is only going to be cheated on. I'm not saying everybody cheats on these test but what kid doesn't take a look at someone else's paper to make sure their answer is correct? Im guilty of looking over; I know I have looked over many times to see if I was right on an