For the past year, officials at Granite Bay High School (CA) have been posting the names of student who cheat on an internal internet server. School officials say the list, officially known as the "Academic Dishonesty List," unofficially known as the cheaters list, will be back this year, because teachers find it useful:
Staff members with passwords can open the...cheaters list, on their computers. Faculty members report incidents to the assistant principal and a secretary updates the list. The teachers receive e-mails about once a month, notifying them when the list has been updated...
At the end of the school year, 68 incidents were logged. Because of multiple infractions, three students had made the list twice. One student appeared three times. Reports had come from 29 teachers....
...Assistant Principal Michael McGuire said the list probably will be available on paper only to teachers who come to his office to report cheaters. One-time cheaters' names probably will be erased from year to year, he added. School officials said that the cheaters' list does not become part of a student's transcript or prevent seniors from graduating.
Teachers always have had access to students' disciplinary records, Severson said. The shared electronic list merely simplifies the process. Teacher Karl Grubaugh appreciates the efficiency.
"In the past, if I wanted to get the rundown on the 70 students in my government or economics class, I had to go the assistant principal's office with a list and go one by one through the files to see if any cheating had occurred," said Grubaugh, who helped develop the idea at a faculty retreat last year.
Posted by kswygert at June 23, 2003 10:22 AM