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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: CAI: on-line exam?
Message-ID: <1135@utai.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 11:19:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 11:19:48 1986
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Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <1024@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>Does anyone on the net have experience with having students
>do a test or exam on-line? I am in the midst of planning this

The closest approximation I can come up with is students writing and
running programs in a controled setting (a dedicated time-sharing
machine with all terminals in the same auditorium), under a time limit.
The problem: machine performance degrades with load, load increases
as the end of test approaches, and stress becomes unbearable.

This is not a CAI application per se, but was seen as a way of testing
programming skills more realistically (the time limit was 4 hours) and
to limit attemps to cheat.

>Or does no-one trust students not to be able to find a way
>to cheat in an on-line exam.

Mail was disabled, and permission to copy files from other accounts were
never given...  In this particular example, it is assumed that having
all the students in the same room at the same time allows the classical
exam supervision techniques (don't talk to your neighbour) to be ok.

-- 

Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.

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