Cheating in Exams with Technology

Ethical Technology Use, Policy, and Reactions in Educational Settings ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1882-4.ch019 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 234-242

Author(s):

Kevin Curran ◽

Gary Middleton ◽

Ciaran Doherty

Keyword(s):

Technology Use ◽

Traditional Methods ◽

Full Extent ◽

New Strategies

Traditional methods of detection may no longer be wholly successful in fully preventing cheating in examinations. New strategies need to be considered and employed to better manage the advancement of technology use for illegitimate purposes. This paper investigates technology used to cheat in examinations, how such cheats are carried out, and how to prevent such methods of cheating. To show the full extent of the progression of cheating over the years, this report also documents some of the traditional methods of cheating. The devices which are used to cheat are investigated to see how they can provide an advantage to those who are taking examinations.

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Cheating in Exams with Technology

International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education ◽

10.4018/ijcee.2011040105 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 54-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Kevin Curran ◽

Gary Middleton ◽

Ciaran Doherty

Keyword(s):

Technology Use ◽

Traditional Methods ◽

Full Extent ◽

New Strategies

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CDC Pushing New Strategies for Flu Vaccination

Pediatric News ◽

10.1016/s0031-398x(06)71448-5 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 40 (11) ◽

pp. 12

Author(s):

HEIDI SPLETE

Keyword(s):

Flu Vaccination ◽

New Strategies

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Aging and assistive technology use

Technology and Disability ◽

10.1016/s1055-4181(96)00198-7 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 6 (1-2) ◽

pp. 63-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

William C. Mann

Keyword(s):

Assistive Technology ◽

Technology Use

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One Size Fits All?

Methodology ◽

10.1027/1614-2241/a000044 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 23-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Manuel C. Voelkle ◽

Patrick E. McKnight

Keyword(s):

Repeated Measures ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Type I Error ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Type I ◽

Finite Sample ◽

Traditional Methods ◽

Repeated Measures Anova ◽

Special Cases ◽

Latent Curve

The use of latent curve models (LCMs) has increased almost exponentially during the last decade. Oftentimes, researchers regard LCM as a “new” method to analyze change with little attention paid to the fact that the technique was originally introduced as an “alternative to standard repeated measures ANOVA and first-order auto-regressive methods” (Meredith & Tisak, 1990, p. 107). In the first part of the paper, this close relationship is reviewed, and it is demonstrated how “traditional” methods, such as the repeated measures ANOVA, and MANOVA, can be formulated as LCMs. Given that latent curve modeling is essentially a large-sample technique, compared to “traditional” finite-sample approaches, the second part of the paper addresses the question to what degree the more flexible LCMs can actually replace some of the older tests by means of a Monte-Carlo simulation. In addition, a structural equation modeling alternative to Mauchly’s (1940) test of sphericity is explored. Although “traditional” methods may be expressed as special cases of more general LCMs, we found the equivalence holds only asymptotically. For practical purposes, however, no approach always outperformed the other alternatives in terms of power and type I error, so the best method to be used depends on the situation. We provide detailed recommendations of when to use which method.

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