A famous primary school was reported earlier in February in local newspapers to be caught systematically cheating in the Territory Wide System Assessment (全港性系統評估). This is a test administered to primary 3, primary 6 and secondary 3 students all over
This school was originally hailed as a 狀元學校 because of outstanding performance in the test. However, it was subsequently found to have cheated. It was reported that a teacher wrote the answers on the blackboard for the class in the English test. 10 students were found to have identical answers. The students performed well in difficult questions but make identical mistakes.
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Some people claim to be surprised that teachers would cheat. I am more surprised that they are surprised. Give the potential impact on teacher reputation, school reputation, applications for admission, allocation of resources, etc., and the relative low risk of being caught - it is just too tempting. Some are bound to succumb.
“Freakonomics” further reported that there is evidence of cheating in 5% of the classrooms in the
I am also worried that the public examinations in
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Agree that I'm surprised that people are surprised. Given the stress that our society places upon teachers, I'm actually surprised that nothing like this has been uncovered before.
I'm actually interested in knowing what questions the students (and the teacher, presumably) got wrong. That says a lot for the teachers' abilities.
My belief is that there are probably many more cases of suspicious behaviour, just like that reported in "Freakonamics". But they are very hard to prove. Hence the authorities make statistical adjustments to counter the manipulation.
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