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These tests should have been taken in-person. Online testing is fundamentally an insecure medium prone to fraud.
by iridium_core 6y ago
These tests should have been taken in-person. Online testing is fundamentally an insecure medium prone to fraud.
- tzs 6y agoTheir honor system is supposed to make how the test is administered irrelevant, so why did that not work should be the fundamental question, I think. Honor systems can work. A well known example is Caltech, where almost all exams are take home exams which students typically take alone in their room or in some other isolated place. Caltech may have an advantage in this because the classes are hard and it gets harder for you each year. If you need to and successfully do cheat, at least in a class that is at all relevant to your field, you are quite likely to flounder in subsequent years. So it may not be that Caltech students follow the Honor system because they are actually more honorable than most--it may be because they are smart enough to realize that cheating isn't really going to help them.
- buzzerbetrayed 6y agoWhy are you assuming the students from Caltech follow the honor system and don't cheat? Seems incredibly likely that a good portion of them do cheat on take home exams.