Must be a real sight when a student shuffled through his/her Necco wafers to find the one with the crtical fact scrawled on it . . . and woe to the hapless student who developed overly-sweaty hands from test anxiety! (Remembering those Valentine message hearts with the runny print!)
Can't say this seems to be a very subtle strategy, although the "concept" is creative and cute. Regarding the question about using clickers to cheat, the only use I can imagine is that some student is out in the hallway with a laptop and a radio receiver for the clicker. These devices transmit the student's answers by radio signal to a receiving computer, which can record which answer the student selected for each question. I suppose a student outside might have a 50-clicker-question power point with only the correct number of alternatives for each question. The student outside would then be able to collect a record of how the student in the class answered each question (1 - A, 2 - D, 3 - B, etc.). Alas for the cheaters - radio transmission only goes in one direction with these devices. Synchronizing the advance of the power point slides to successive questions properly during the test would be tricky. The clickers don't tell the student which question number he/she is responding to. And students can change his/her answer to any question by pressing a different response on the clicker. The data program will collect responses until the person controlling the receiveing computer closes polling. So if the inside and outside student get out of synch, some answers will appear as multiple responses to one question and the last questions in the presentation might not have any answers at all. As they say in Hollywood - high concept, needs work. :-) Reminds me of the days when I graded MC tests manually by using a special hole punch for hand-grading scantron sheets. For a while I had a collection of scantron chads in a little jar on my desk - the correct answers to all of my test questions! (my little sick joke at the time) Claudia J. Stanny --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2274 or send a blank email to leave-2274-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
