#Invigilation

Here's a quote from Mike Olsen: "It’s hilarious, students pretending to care where their data goes. Whether they’re cheating or not, I don’t really care, but then they go out
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Students at the Australian National University and other Australian educational institutions have signed up with US "invigilation" companies that produce anti-cheating spyware for students' computers. Students and faculty are furious.ht
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Thoughts on invigilation, prompted by this thread.https://twitter.com/JamesBSumner/status/1264819934741311488Invigilation has two purposes: (a) make honesty an easier option than cheating; (b) persuade candidates that everyone else sees it
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Typically woeful magical thinking here. This from an Oxford spokesbeing: "Remote invigilation is widely used in the higher education sector." Erm, no, it *isn't*, if you're talking about the UK.
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The Australian National University is insisting that students install "invigilation" software that monitors their computer use to prevent cheating during tests.This is incredibly worrisome.https://www.woroni.com.au/news/analysis-the-issues-
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High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good
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A funny thing happened on the way to the pandemic. Neoliberalism's imperative to look only at how things work (not how they fail) created lean, overstretched supply chains that allowed
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Is the government really saying WASSCE cannot be organised without the students going to back to school???Is that the only way??? Can't they do it like Novdec .. give students
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Part way through 1st online exam. Cheating is blatantly obvious, as I feared. (Ppl finishing at same time, w/ exact answer patterns.) Have 5 more exams scheduled. Considering dropping them
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Math students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have been ordered to buy an external webcam and a means of fixing it over their shoulder so that proctors can
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Long(ish) thread about this - *strictly* a personal view, but nevertheless informed by how these discussions have played out over the last couple of weeks 1/https://twitter.com/k_donnellyceo/status/1248279832531697664 Firstly (at the risk
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One of the most profound latent political statements in internet history was the decision to make "user-agent" the technical term for a web-browser - implying that the browser should work
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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is
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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in
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When schools switched to distance learning amid the lockdown, it represented a chance to rethink education and ed-tech, from lessons to schedules to evaluation. For the most part, we have
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