March 12 lessons
Exam cheating: Are the laws strong enough?
You might want to have your students first look back to the incident that led to the renewed interest in exam cheating. You can find that story here. Who was involved in that incident?As far as this story is concerned, you might have the students read it and list the cheating methods described in the story. Do they know of any other methods as well?
For me, the most interesting and disturbing part of this story was the fact that there do not appear to be any laws relevant to exam cheating. I find this difficult to accept. The testing agency itself must be a victim of fraud, so why can't it file charges? What do your students think? What do they think about the cabinet's idea that the best way to combat cheating is to instill a sense honesty in students?