Teachers and schools try different kinds of ways to stop students from cheating in exams. But some students always find new ways to cheat in their exams. It's like a race between them.
Recently, a university in the Philippines has come up with a new way to stop cheating. That is: The university asks its students to create their own anti-cheating hats to wear during exams. This new idea to stop students from cheating soon became very popular.
The method came from Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz, a professor of the university. And she got inspiration from a university in Thailand. She saw a photo on the Internet, showing a room of students at the Thai university taking test papers while wearing "ear flaps". They were made from pieces of paper and stuck to each side of their heads to stop seeing others' papers. So Prof Mandane-Ortiz decided to ask her students to do the same. The students were excited about the work. They made their hats out of cardboard, egg boxes and other recycled materials (可回收的材料).
The method worked out pretty well. The students did better this year, because the strict examination conditions made them work harder. What's more, most of them finished their exams early, and nobody was caught cheating Prof Mandane-Ortiz also called on schools and universities in other parts of the country to encourage their own students to wear anti-cheating hats. "Again, the anti-cheating hat not only reminds students not to cheat, but makes them study hard," said Prof Mandane-Ortiz. "Let us value integrity and honesty (正直和诚实)."
