[LINK] Australian University Students Allegedly Cheating with iPads

Jim Birch planetjim at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 10:52:51 AEDT 2013


There's also the strategy allegedly used in economics departments of
changing the answers, rather than the questions :)

- Jim


On 21 November 2013 09:05, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au>wrote:

> I was interviewed briefly by Caroline Winter at ABC Radio's The World
> Today, about university students allegedly using tablet computers to
> cheat in examinations: "University investigates allegations of cheating"
> (19 Nov 2013, 2:44pm AEDT):
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-19/university-investigates-allegations-of-cheating/5102582?section=sa#
>
> This was a follow-up to the item "Medical students allegedly cheated on
> Adelaide University exam about human reproductive health" (19 November
> 2013, 8:01am AEDT):
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-19/medical-students-allegedly-cheated-on-exam/5101106
>
> Students are alleged to have screen captured from an examination paper
> and left them for the next group of students. Apparently the iPads were
> supplied by the university and not reset between examination candidates.
> This seems a curious way to administer a computer based examination and
> such an examination seems an odd way to do assessment.
>
> There are ways to make cheating harder with screen based tests, such as
> choosing questions at random from bank and altering quantities in
> numerical ones.
>
> More at:
>
> http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2013/11/australian-university-students.html
>
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