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Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com)
Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: Schools are to be given advice on how to disable a glitch that allows pupils sitting online spelling tests to right-click their mouse and find the answer. It follows the discovery by teachers that children familiar with traditional computer spellcheckers were simply applying it to the tests. The Scottish National Standardized Assessments were introduced to assess progress in four different age groups. A spokesman said the issue was not with the Scottish National Standardized Assessments (SNSA) but with browser or device settings on some machines.
Introduced in 2017, the spelling test asks children to identify misspelt words. However, on some school computers the words were highlighted with a red line. Pupils who right-clicked on the words were then able to access the correct spelling. The web-based SNSA tool enables teachers to administer online literacy and numeracy tests for pupils in P1, P4, P7 and S3, which are marked and scored automatically. Advice is being given to schools about how to disable the spellchecking function.
Introduced in 2017, the spelling test asks children to identify misspelt words. However, on some school computers the words were highlighted with a red line. Pupils who right-clicked on the words were then able to access the correct spelling. The web-based SNSA tool enables teachers to administer online literacy and numeracy tests for pupils in P1, P4, P7 and S3, which are marked and scored automatically. Advice is being given to schools about how to disable the spellchecking function.
Better headline: Teachers shocked to discover that students doing tests on a computer knew how to operate the computer.
Nor is this stuff that matters.
Embarrassing and silly, but upon reading the summary, understandable how it happened. Not worth wasting screen space for.
Shore that is a grate whey too git the deer kids inn two a university coarse.
Some clearly can't.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Judging by resumes I've read as of late, I'm amazed if they used anything else.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
At my job, being at least 10 years older that any colleagues of mine, writing correctly has become unprofessional. Someone mentioned that my writing was "pretentious" and that I was showing off.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)