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On Sunday, I was one of the proctors involved in proctoring for a computer programming course. In this course, we have regular lab exams - which is a big change from before when we based most of our scoring on paper based examination. This is a better gauge of a student's programming ability as we can check how they can do problem solving with real compilers instead of imagining things up and writing their program in paper.
Though this has been a big advantage, I do want to point out that there are many challenges that are faced with holding regular computer examination and there would be many interesting ways they plan to cheat.
A few years ago on my first lab exam proctoring, I've noticed alot of students attempted to use the Internet by using email/chat clients/ftp servers to share their answers. Some of the traditional methods such as using floppies and thumb-drives to copy work is also used. With that earlier observations, we have concluded before this exam that we are going to disconnect the Internet Connection by blocking all outgoing connections to the internet.
At first it seems that this approach is good, but fortunately early on the exam, we had figured that some of the students had strange configuration in the computers. What we noticed was they were using the Network Sharing and they just simply shared the whole drive of their computer. As the computers are accessible in the local network, we found out early that the students have yet found another creative idea in how to cheat in our lab exam again.
So without further hesitation, we just simply pulled out every single RJ45 cables from the computer before any damage could have been done.
Concluding in this lesson we proctors have learnt that many of the students will always find creative ways to cheat in their exams but will smirk at the thought of studying and practicing hard for it.
Oh well... Just a short tale to share to all of us readers. I'm flaberghasted at the thought of this.
and let me just share one of the examples that we proctors have concluded as one likely case scenario.
3 comments:
LOL, the students are clever, too bad that the proctors are cleverer. LOL again :O
well well, teachers have to be samrter in globalization time. keep on reading your blog
it's interesting, thanks for informing us how to cheat a computer exam! http://livecustomwriting.com/blog/why-do-students-cheat-on-assignments-and-exams has some facts that explain why student cheat on assignments and exams!
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