[Yulpub] Fwd: 5/18/2006 - The Chronicle's Wired Campus Newsletter

[Suzanne Lorimer]

In case you haven't seen this . . .

-Sue

>Professors Play the Role of Anticheating Police
>
>As cellphones and PDA's get smaller, unscrupulous students' attempts to 
>use the devices to cheat are becoming trickier. At the University of 
>Nevada at Las Vegas, for example, some students recently hatched a scheme 
>in which they photographed test questions with their cellphone cameras, 
>sent the images to friends outside the classroom, and got answers back in 
>the form of text messages. So what's a beleaguered professor to do? A 
>number of proctors are taking technology out of the equation altogether -- 
>by making test-takers hand over cell phones and iPods when they enter the 
>classroom, and by forcing students to work in the now-quaint medium of pen 
>on paper. (The New York Times)

Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
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