There’s a very easy solution. Prohibit all electronic devices on exam day. And to make calculations, students can just use what I used when I took physics.
(Batteries not required. Very eco-friendly!)
Posted on 05/02/2020 8:04:10 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The Georgia Tech campus is buzzing about the allegation that students in a physics class posted questions from their final exam to the online tutoring service Chegg where tutors provided answers...the College of Science and Georgia Tech Legal is working with Chegg to figure out which Tech students accessed the tutoring site during the final exam -- for which there was a 24-hour completion window -- and cross-correlating it with the time students were on the testing platform, Gradescope. If the times overlap, students could end up with an F...
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Now is the time of year when college students are taking finals.
I don't think this is the last we will hear of such events.
I remember a classmate in college panicking after an exam. Turns out she had a cheat sheet and she accidentally turned it in with her exam.
This exam stuff with any students is going to be a nightmare.
Say it again: there is no substitute for the real thing!
The parents will do anything it takes to get the kids into a college. Let’s not be shocked when the kids cheat too.
All this distance learning is a cheater’s dream come true. Who the hell knows who’s doing the work?
It’s a trap....admit nothing.
I think cheating is proof we need to reform education. What is the point about cramming for exams, that get forgotten the next day?
Everybody who cheated hold up your hand. Hey professor ain’t nobody here but us and I’m your assistant. Prof “ah shitz, you’re right. That ain’t gonna work. Any ideas Watson?”
When I was an engineering TA, I caught a couple kids cheating together homework assignments. They were solo assignments.
There’s a very easy solution. Prohibit all electronic devices on exam day. And to make calculations, students can just use what I used when I took physics.
(Batteries not required. Very eco-friendly!)
> All this distance learning is a cheater’s dream come true. Who the hell knows who’s doing the work? <
Right. Distance-learning cheating happens a lot. I’ve even seen solicitations for it online: Take my online chemistry course for me. Get me at least a B, and I’ll pay you $500. That sort of thing.
This will cheapen degrees to the point that they will become worthless.
I showed a slide rule to some high school students and they could not figure out why it could multiply but not add two numbers.
Then how will they take the exam online since the colleges are closed?
Dumb. Did they really think the school wasn’t going to find out?
When that Chinese EM pulse finally hits, you and I will be top dogs. We will be in great demand.
Because then only slide rules will work. And hardly anyone knows how to use them anymore. (I still have my two from college.)
I was working as a supervisor in a nuclear facility on shift work. Getting all the supervisors in a classroom on a day shift with training was near impossible, so they sent us the requal tests to take and send in. They screwed up and sent an answer key out with the tests. Our manager asked us later if we passed the test? He was told yes by each of us. He said “It’s a damn good thing because if you’d of flunked with the answer key, I would have fired your ass. Doing that would prove you have no business around nuclear materials.” It’s a true story. Proving again fact is stranger than fiction. :)
Loved the Babylon Bee article about the dad that was proud that he got an 87 on his daughter’s math test. 4th grade, IIRC.
Online tests (both college and K-12) are wide open for cheating, and you know it’s happening big time. As long as everyone passes and makes decent on the SAT/ACT the schools don’t care. Suspect there’s going to be a lot of kids struggling at the next math level next year.
“There’s a very easy solution. Prohibit all electronic devices on exam day.”
hmmm. Ban the computer they are using for the online test?
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