In Kim Clark's article, statistics show that from the mid 1900's to 2002 the percentage of students who admitted to cheating had risen 50 percent. These days cheating is an art that has been mastered by technology. Students today use cell phones, computers, and ipods to score high points on tests they never studied for. Professors are now trying to battle technology with technology. Using web blocks and text matching softwares to catch students in the act of cheating. Even though schools may be able to block bits and peices of information they cannot always block what has already been done in cell phones and ipods or graphing calculators.
A new way to cheat is through bar codes on bottles of soda. Students spend so much time preparing a brilliant cheat sheet when some of that time can be used to study. The idea of battling technology with technology seems to be a good idea until students out smart the teachers. Cheating in school, although frowned upon has always been a part of our lives. Whether it be writing the answers on each others shoes and sitting in strategic places in the class room, to bar code scanning replacing nutritional information with notes to the test. There is no complete way to make sure no one has cheated in class when new ways are always being thought up and perfected.
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