Thursday, January 20, 2022

Could Custom Exams Prevent Cheating? - Jack Grove, Times Higher Education

British university experiments with exams created in part by computer codes—and appears to have success.  Custom exams containing unique data sets for each student being tested at a British university could significantly curtail cheating in online assessments, researchers believe. In a novel approach, chemists at the University of Exeter are using computer coding to generate 60 different data sets for a single class—one for each student—taking a data analytics test that is worth 20 percent of the entire module grade.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/06/british-university-tries-custom-exam-reduce-cheating