[NIFL-FOBASICS:1202] Re: Cheating??

From: Michele Craig (shellcraig@ix.netcom.com) ((shellcraig@ix.netcom.com))
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 18:37:02 EST


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I think the more pressure the students are under and the more a welfare 
payment or other incentive is based on performance or attendance, the more 
cheating goes on. Fairly regularly, I have Calworks students cheat on 
attendance (signing in and out) because they really don't want to be there 
and have to be to receive their money. Recently I also had a student cheat 
by stealing an answer key and copying it. She was a young girl (under 18) 
about to time out of foster care and getting a lot of pressure from her 
foster mom to see the work she was doing.

I think I see it a lot less frequently in ABE /GED classes though, than I 
did in the high school diploma class or the college where I worked since 
the stakes (credits) were higher.

Michele Craig
Woodland Adult School
Woodland, CA



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