[offtopic] (via slashdot) Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology

[Alexandru Juncu]

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| Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology
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|   from the spy-vs.-spy dept.
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|   posted by kdawson on Friday July 09, @11:23 (Education)
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|   https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/09/1426242/Colleges-Stepping-Up-Anti-Cheating-Technol|
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Bruce Schneier's blog [0]highlights a New York Times piece on
[1]high-tech methods for detecting student cheating. Schneier notes, "The
measures used to prevent cheating during tests remind me of casino
security measures." "No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could
disguise a student's speaking into a hands-free cellphone to an
accomplice outside. The 228 computers that students use are recessed into
desk tops so that anyone trying to photograph the screen — using, say, a
pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the
test later — is easy to spot. Scratch paper is allowed — but it is
stamped with the date and must be turned in later. When a proctor sees
something suspicious, he records the student's real-time work at the
computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of
images are burned onto a CD for evidence." The Times article quotes from
research published a few months back suggesting that [2]the more you copy
homework, the lower your grades.

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Links:
   0. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/detecting_cheat_1.html
   1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html
   2. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57656/title/Homework_makes_the_grade