[Year 12 IT Apps] AUThENTICATION

[Savage, John L]

I find the manilla folder trick is great for the student's design and planning documents and any other written work. It also means I can record their work as they go. I have a small group this year so I can spread them out in the room. Interesting idea about the Assessment Account logins, I might give that a try.

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Friday, 24 May 2013 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] AUThENTICATION

Hi Christopher.

This is a big can of worms with a sharp lid.  Even after taking heroic measures, it is impossible to guarantee there will be no unfair advantages taken by students.
Even if you cut off access to their normal network drives durings SACS, cut off email, disable all messaging apps, glue up USB ports, confiscate phones... there will be a dozen other new tricks you couldn't have anticipated.

I watched their progress carefully in class, copied work-in-progress after each work session (mainly of the untrustworthy kids) from their network drives, and recorded who was sitting next to whom...  This is particularly valuable since the kids who will cheat usually aren't clever enough to do it in a sophisticated manner: they will simply copy their neighbour and when their work is marked immediately after their neighbour's, similarities become immediately obvious.

Most of all, I watch out for supernatural overnight improvements in students' performance. If I see a 300% increase in output and quality, a few well-placed questions such as "Why did you do this that way?" and "This is an interesting technique... can you explain it to me?" usually sorts things out pretty quickly.

And bluffing is always useful.  Remind the kids of magical network tools that automatically detect changes to SAC files created outside of SAC periods.  And simply looking at the time stamps of kids' SAC files is an easy way to catch out kids who have not mastered the art of 'touching' file timestamps.

And of course, the best source of info about cheating will always be the good kids in the class who are really aggrieved that their honest efforts are being eroded. They will often quickly let you know who is worthy of suspicion.

Good luck.

Mark
Gentleman of Leisure.
Currently recuperating from coronary bypass surgery at vceit.com<http://vceit.com> headquarters.

On 24 May 2013 12:20, Christopher Jansen <christopherj at sjc.vic.edu.au<mailto:christopherj at sjc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
>From the study design.

"Work related to the outcomes of each unit will be accepted only if the teacher can attest that, to the
best of their knowledge, all unacknowledged work is the student's own. Teachers need to refer to the
current VCE and VCAL Administrative Handbook for authentication procedures."

As our SAC's go over a number of periods how do people go about making sure that none of the work is done outside class to create a fair assessment for all?

Currently I have them work on USB. Of course they could simply work on a copy of the work and add it to the USB. It is more of a trick than anything? I also monitor the students work in class by looking over shoulders etc.

Does anyone have any other system to keep things fair.


Thanks,
Christopher Jansen
Information Technology and Mathematics Teacher

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