[LAU] Exam Cheating investigation

[Pete Wright]

Cell phone jamming is illegal for the most part, I believe.
I suggest you redesign your testing and set different (i.e., positive
educational) goals for it.
In my experience good teachers usually know pretty well how students
individually and collectively are doing, as long as the classroom is
participative, not just a lecture.
You might use testing to see how the students are using what they have
learned to solve problems as they would in the real world.
Welcome smartphones to the process and give lots of credit for contributing
to the process. (You can use your own smartphone for that.)
Then you can publish articles about it and become a dean or vice president
and spend the rest of your career fund-raising. (No good deed unpunished
was probably invented in academia.)
Just kidding (mostly).
Pete


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:11 AM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> On 01/16/2014 07:02 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:32:14PM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:13:07 -0800 (PST)
>>> Ivan K <ivan_521521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello LAD/LAU members:
>>>>
>>>> I teach introduction to western music courses at a local
>>>> community college, and one thing I have to deal with is
>>>> students cheating by using a smart phone during the
>>>> exam.  Sure, I am in the room and occasionally walk
>>>> down the aisles, but these enterprising students are still
>>>> often able to hide a smart phone from me.
>>>>
>>>> The way these smart phone cheaters are usually caught
>>>> is when answering an essay question, they usually
>>>> look up the topic on Wikipedia and copy word for word
>>>> several sentences.
>>>>
>>>> On these exams, there are a few audio identifications,
>>>> and recently one student did a surprising thing.
>>>> The audio example was from Pierrot Lunaire, and not only did
>>>> answer the question by writing down the title and composer but
>>>> she ALSO WROTE DOWN the title and composer of a track by Webern
>>>> which was on the original CD that I ripped the Schoenberg
>>>> from.
>>>>
>>>> To summarize, from an mp3/ogg file that was put on-line
>>>> of one track from a CD, the student was able to identify
>>>> _other_ tracks from the CD that were not put on-line.
>>>>
>>>> How did the student do this?  Here are links to the two sound
>>>> files that the students had access to:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/66qkorouak19gpu/07_20th-pilu_p03_15-18.mp3
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/z17qoxey9ju4lei/07_20th-pilu_p03_15-18.ogg
>>>>
>>>> Are there some tags embedded in these files?  How would I
>>>> be able to see these tags myself?
>>>>
>>>> If there are no embedded tags, how did this student obtain
>>>> this information?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks;  Ivan
>>>>
>>>
>>> Another possibility:
>>> There is also the possibility that the student was not cheating.
>>> True, given the information you provided it seems unlikely, and you may
>>> have additional indicators, but I'd simply ask her why she wrote down
>>> that other track.
>>>
>>> In my humble opinion, you won't ged rid of smartphone cheats unless you
>>> use a different mode of examination. It just shows that factoid
>>> checking is an anachronism.
>>>
>>
>> Or you could do your exams in a Faraday cage in the basement of the
>> building.
>>
>> -ken
>>
>
> Or you could put in a cell phone jammer:
>
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cell+phone+jammer
>
> Or you could think out some way to resolve the problem that education
> seeks to evaluate an individual on individual achievement while in the
> business world you'll be expected to ask others for information and
> answers, and work together to succeed as a team.
>
> --
> David
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