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Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology
Bruce Schneier's blog highlights a New York Times piece on high-tech methods for detecting student cheating. Schneier notes, "The measures used to prevent cheating during tests remind me of casino security measures." "No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student's speaking into a hands-free cellphone to an accomplice outside. The 228 computers that students use are recessed into desk tops so that anyone trying to photograph the screen — using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot. Scratch paper is allowed — but it is stamped with the date and must be turned in later. When a proctor sees something suspicious, he records the student's real-time work at the computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of images are burned onto a CD for evidence." The Times article quotes from research published a few months back suggesting that the more you copy homework, the lower your grades.
So these schools are buying solutions to their problem of students cheating rather than figuring it out themselves? Isn't that what they're trying to prevent? /sarcasm
It's being a 'team player'.
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Before you know it, all student financial records will be audited to make sure they haven't bought anything from Thinkgeek during their academic careers.
Bruce Schneier already knows Alice AND Bob's secret; all he has to do to detect cheating is eye a test taker until their lies burst into flames. Nothing hides from Bruce Schneier... Nothing.
Go ahead, let them cheat. They'll be paying for it once they get a job based on their "degree" and suddenly realize they don't know fuckall about what they're doing.
From TFA:
“Copying homework is a leading indicator of becoming a business major,”
I leave the punchlines to the public....
Listen, If you're going to make sense and ask people to do their jobs properly, I'm going to have to ask you to leave /.
And the Internet in general.
Future career: Outsourcing job manager.
their version of teaching English was route memorization
Naturally they have to memorize routes because China could block Google maps at any time.
Great story. My favorite cheating incident was in a Psych 101 course which used multiple choice exams on scan sheets (the "fill in the bubble" forms). I realized during the first exam that the guy next to me was copying my answers, so I made the usual attempts to cover my answer sheet. I suppose I wasn't good enough because at the beginning of the second exam the same guy and a couple of his friends were jockeying desks to get a better view of my answers. I made no attempt to cover my answers, but I did answer every question wrong, then just sat there reviewing my answers until they turned in their tests. Once they left, I erased all my answers and entered the right ones.
I knew I was destined to become a BOFH.