cheat sheet
A cheat sheet , also Spicker , dizziness or cheat sheet , is a small piece of paper, which is used in a test exam, query, or a test of the device under test in forbidden ways, to be able to better answer the questions or tasks. Recently, technical aids such as MP3 players or smartphones with dictated texts have also been used.
The use of cheat sheets or comparable aids in German school and examination law fulfills the criteria of "misappropriation" and, if discovered during or after an examination, leads to the withdrawal of the entire examination performance and / or its worst possible grade .
Use of cheat sheets
Students are occasionally encouraged by teachers to create cheat sheets as a learning method to use as a study aid. By creating such a slip of paper, learning should be facilitated. However, this must not be used in the performance test.
Cheat sheets are also used as everyday reminders, e.g. B. for shopping lists, simple cooking recipes, representation of work processes in individual steps and. Ä.
At universities / colleges there is sometimes the permission to take a piece of paper with the content of your choice with you to an exam. It can be, for. For example, important but difficult to remember formulas or sketches that are necessary to solve a more complex task. Without learning, such cheat sheets are almost useless; they only serve to ensure that subordinate knowledge is quickly at hand in order to be able to deal with the task at hand. Since the amount is limited by the paper format and the notes often have to be handwritten, this also means that the students grapple with the material again when putting together the cheat sheet.
Types of cheat sheets
There are many different types of cheat sheets, all of which basically aim to hide the information as well as possible, but also to make it easy to read. Printing the information in a very small size is probably the most widely used method. The use of computers and (laser) printers greatly optimized readability and made some unusual types of cheat sheets possible. An extensive collection shows a cheat sheet exhibition in the vocational college St. Michael, Ahlen (Westphalia), which the local school chaplain Johannes Gröger has compiled during the years of his activity. The school shows the collected “cheat sheets” in the exhibition Confidence Views .
The canon tables in the Tridentine mass of the Catholic Church are a special kind of "cheat sheet", which are supposed to spare the celebrating priest at certain times, at certain points on the altar, from having to look into the missal .
Famous cheat sheet
A cheat sheet from former national soccer goalkeeper Jens Lehmann received international attention. On June 30, 2006 at the quarter-final match of the 2006 World Cup , goalkeeping coach Andreas Köpke Lehmann slipped a handwritten cheat sheet with information about the shooters of the Argentine team. Lehmann saved two penalties against Argentina and was celebrated as the match winner. He later made the note available to the Ein Herz für Kinder campaign . The EnBW company bought the slip at auction for one million euros and donated it to the House of History in Bonn. The note is currently on display in the German Football Museum in Dortmund .
See also
literature
- Günter F. Hessenauer: Caught! Everything about cheat sheets & Co. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-62506-0 .
- Susanne Lettenbauer: Gallery of Cheating: Small pieces of paper, big impact. In: Spiegel Online (“Schulspiegel”), June 8, 2007: Delivery of 5,000 cheat sheets to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for research purposes .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition Confidence Views ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Münster district government, school department, 2009).
