Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Honor System for tests Message-ID: <5393@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 13:28:46 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5393 Posted: Fri Oct 19 13:28:46 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:47:18 EDT References: <1970@stolaf.UUCP> <1681@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 24 Regarding cheating: It's been a while since I was in school, so this may be an old and completed discussion for most of you, but I just thought of it while reading the "honor system" discussion. It is my understanding that many test situations in the sciences allow the students to use calculators during the test. If you are so allowed, and the test is to see if you had memorized or knew certain formulae or principles, what is to keep someone from using one of those little alphanumeric memory calculators/pocket computers to store the formulae? You couldn't tell from looking at what they were doing if they were just punching in numbers and reading off results, or if they were recalling text containing information and therefore cheating. Anybody have any knowledge of this possibility actually being used? (And an aside: an old story about tests. For an open-book type of test in an engineering school, the professor had announced that the students could use, during the test, "anything they could carry into the room with them". One student arrived carrying a graduate student on his shoulders...) Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA