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It really isn't. Cheating with cell phones is the same as cheating with a note card except the quality of information. They aren't less or more detectable than

It really isn't. Cheating with cell phones is the same as cheating with a note card except the quality of information. They aren't less or more detectable than other forms of cheating so there's no need to specifically target phones. Teachers just need to continue doing what they've been doing for decades, looking for cheaters.

bsder 5y ago
> It really isn't. Cheating with cell phones is the same as cheating with a note card except the quality of information. It really is. Most cheaters aren't going to assume that their phone is going to be blocked and store things locally. Please do realize that most cheaters are pretty stupid. However, that still doesn't make a jammer a good idea.
- AlexAndScripts 5y ago
  They will after the year above them tells them about it.
- parineum 5y ago
  You're missing the point. People still have to covertly read a small rectangle for the answers to the questions. That's what teachers were looking for before and that's what they're looking for now.
oefrha 5y ago
Signal jammers are meant to stop the kind of blatant cheating where you take a picture of the problems, send it to a hired test taker on the outside, and receive the answers. (A Google glass like device would be especially powerful at this.) Not surprisingly if you only use your phone as a digital cheat sheet then an online one isn’t that much better than an offline one.
belorn 5y ago
When they busted a large cheating ring here in Sweden for the national aptitude test the setup involved miniature receivers and transmitters, a central location giving information to all the test sites, and countermeasures to anti-cheat. The cheating was a multi-million operation and the several people involved got multiple years in prison. One could say that the quality of information is one qualifying difference, also the scale and effectiveness. They were less detectable, and also designed and tested to avoid detection in ways that note cards are not.

bsder 5y ago

> It really isn't. Cheating with cell phones is the same as cheating with a note card except the quality of information. It really is. Most cheaters aren't going to assume that their phone is going to be blocked and store things locally. Please do realize that most cheaters are pretty stupid. However, that still doesn't make a jammer a good idea.

AlexAndScripts 5y ago
They will after the year above them tells them about it.
parineum 5y ago
You're missing the point. People still have to covertly read a small rectangle for the answers to the questions. That's what teachers were looking for before and that's what they're looking for now.

oefrha 5y ago

Signal jammers are meant to stop the kind of blatant cheating where you take a picture of the problems, send it to a hired test taker on the outside, and receive the answers. (A Google glass like device would be especially powerful at this.) Not surprisingly if you only use your phone as a digital cheat sheet then an online one isn’t that much better than an offline one.

belorn 5y ago

When they busted a large cheating ring here in Sweden for the national aptitude test the setup involved miniature receivers and transmitters, a central location giving information to all the test sites, and countermeasures to anti-cheat. The cheating was a multi-million operation and the several people involved got multiple years in prison. One could say that the quality of information is one qualifying difference, also the scale and effectiveness. They were less detectable, and also designed and tested to avoid detection in ways that note cards are not.