Detecting Cheating at Colleges
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.
Lots of information on detecting cheating in homework and written papers.
Clive Robinson • July 9, 2010 7:17 AM
And how do we stop the “proctor” et al cheating?
If you don’t trust the student’s they will implicitly believe this is because those who judge them are untrustworthy.
Some will thus consider that the “proctor” et al are open to financial or other inducments.
And from what we can see the chances are they will strike lucky…
Thus accademic success like many things in life will be gifted to those who have the resources and abilities to bribe and corupt.
And saddly those honest students who become “suspect” for many inocent reasons (some people talk to thmselves when concentrating) will be pilloried by a kangeroo court who’s only purpose is to be seen to be hard on those accused of cheating by a person who may well be compleatly untrustworthy.