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Memory Stick against exam cheating
Schools should introduce the digital exam, where students use their own laptops, and many students may be tempted to cheat. Researchers at the Norwegian Computing Center has found the solution by using free software launched from a memory stick.
- During the examination system student will run a customized version of Ubuntu Linux system. Student system will include software that is necessary for the completion of the exam, only permitted sites will be available and network access will be limited to the school's exam online.
- In this way, students are less tempted to cheat, "said Truls Fretland.
- Before the start of the examination is stick in the pupil declined computer. Since its inception entered candidate number in and the PC sends a regular message to management module that it is online.
This is important since a reboot of the machine can give the student access to documents on their hard drive, and access to unapproved networks.
The whole article you'll find here.
Operating on the memory stick is a very interesting technical solution, although I have several such memory sticks Landscape with XBMC , ubuntu and linux mint in use. (Tip for how to do this you will find
here .)
It is of course a discussion about should have access to all aid during an exam, and up exercises are good if one could easily answer them with all the aids available. But if one now to arrange examination with a limited selection of aid, this is probably a potential solution. I wonder if they have set it up so that you can not read the contents of your hard disk, cd-rom or other, it is possible to download the whole wikipedia td ..
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October 11th, 2008 at 7:59 p.m.
I now say only: what did they with a computer? Give them a typewriter, so we do not have the problem.
When new technology is used in the old setting, the whole thing turned on its head. The point of computers is precisely communication! We need to think a lot of basic ideas again, where cheating is something entirely different than having contact with others.
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October 12th, 2008 at 9:06
Totally agree with Einar.
What is interesting is to measure students' reflections on the content: how to analyze and synteserer, manufacturing, konluderer, presententerer and documents - in communication! Everything is communication - only in different varieties. Why do we have the death and life measure monologue, when it actually overodnede goal is to teach students and be in dialogue.
I use the traffic again as an example: Is it like when the kids run up to the driver sample, we place them in a deserted and traffic-free city? No! Precisely, we let them be part of the context-training is geared towards and for.
We must tear down the walls of the school, not build them higher!
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October 12th, 2008 at 9:08
Forget about always checking the forwarding of follow-up comment like that in the heat of battle c ",)
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