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Proctoring exams is a crazy, messed-up world. It has always been extraordinarily difficult for human teachers and TAs to prevent cheating on tests. And the tech
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Proctoring exams is a crazy, messed-up world. It has always been extraordinarily difficult for human teachers and TAs to prevent cheating on tests. And the tech companies have convinced administrators that technology can proctor exams better than an eagle-eyed human, and so they've designed elaborate biometrics and heuristics and ML to determine who the cheatingest students are, and it's a dumpster fire of false positives and bugs and general injustice. And now we've got LLMs!
- liendolucas 3y agoFor this particular case, the camera thing that I mentioned is absolutely pointless, it's doesn't prevent anything, just an annoying thing that forces you to sit in a rigid, uncomfortable and fixed position to answer questions. But besides that, there are always 30 computers in a relatively small room with each computer spaced from other ones, one person watching from a desk and another one always stood up watching for everyone. Is way way more complicated to cheat than to actually prepare yourself to pass it. Before entering you are even scanned with a magnetic detector! Just in case you are wearing an electronic device that will help you to answer a randomized set of questions. > And the tech companies have convinced administrators that technology can proctor exams better than an eagle-eyed human. This to me denotes complete ignorance on the persons that are supposed to evaluate the implementation of a particular technology.