dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (01/07/86)
Does anyone on the net have experience with having students
do a test or exam on-line? I am in the midst of planning this
for the Bar Admission Course's course in Accounting. I'd be
very interested in hearing from other people's experiences -
special traps to watch out for, planning which has to be done
to get the program right...
Or does no-one trust students not to be able to find a way
to cheat in an on-line exam?
Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
(416) 947 3466
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{ ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!davelamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) (01/08/86)
In article <1024@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes: >Does anyone on the net have experience with having students >do a test or exam on-line? I am in the midst of planning this The closest approximation I can come up with is students writing and running programs in a controled setting (a dedicated time-sharing machine with all terminals in the same auditorium), under a time limit. The problem: machine performance degrades with load, load increases as the end of test approaches, and stress becomes unbearable. This is not a CAI application per se, but was seen as a way of testing programming skills more realistically (the time limit was 4 hours) and to limit attemps to cheat. >Or does no-one trust students not to be able to find a way >to cheat in an on-line exam. Mail was disabled, and permission to copy files from other accounts were never given... In this particular example, it is assumed that having all the students in the same room at the same time allows the classical exam supervision techniques (don't talk to your neighbour) to be ok. -- Jean-Francois Lamy Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal. CSNet: lamy@toronto.csnet UUCP: {utzoo,ihnp4,decwrl,uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!lamy CDN: lamy@iro.udem.cdn (lamy%iro.udem.cdn@ubc.csnet)
wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (01/14/86)
Constitution tests have been given on PLATO, the great-granddaddy of CAI systems, for years. Contact Norm Hinton or Bill Bloemer at Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois. I think the ZIP code is 62705, but am not certain. If you have access to PLATO, you can send p-notes to hinton/ssu or bloemer/ssu. "When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all." Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat