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Online Class can be an easy "A" for cheaters
Roger_Dooley
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An interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed shows that online testing technology isn't keeping up with student cheating creativity. The article describes one scheme in which several students perform a sort of round-robin testing scheme in which they share questions and answers via Google Docs (now Drive). Despite question randomization and a short window of opportunity to take the test, this scheme allows all of the participants to ace the test.
Various anti-cheating systems are in the works, but it doesn't look as if most schools have implemented systems that fully prevent cheating.
Online Courses Can Offer Easy A's via High-Tech Cheating - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Do you take any tests online, and, if so, are there ways to cheat?
Various anti-cheating systems are in the works, but it doesn't look as if most schools have implemented systems that fully prevent cheating.
Online Courses Can Offer Easy A's via High-Tech Cheating - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Do you take any tests online, and, if so, are there ways to cheat?
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Replies to: Online Class can be an easy "A" for cheaters
Lessoned to be learned: The cheating will catch up to them when they haven't learned a thing through all of their entry level classes.
It's things like this that cause online college degrees to be considered worthless. The employer can't possible know if the college had anti-cheating software in place.
One of the real things that cause this, in my opinion, is the required courses that students simply view as a necessary hurdle they need to cross in order to get to the more interesting advanced courses. The solution to this would either be to make all courses interesting (not gonna happen) or change requirements and things around. This cheating problem in online classes doesn't look like its ending soon.
Sounds like that isn't really necessary....
The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
I've taken on-line courses myself. One professor required me to find a local proctor (like a kndly librarian) to whom he mailed the test. At the time, I hadn't yet met the above mentioned course-taker-for-hire, and thought the proctoring thing was a pain in the but. Now in retrospect, I can see why he does it that way.