Re: Quiz programs

[Maurice Barnhill <mvb@UDEL.EDU>]

Dwight Souder wrote:
> ...

> There was also a small security feature so that students couldn't
> type up a false report on their word processor, without knowing what the
> code at the end of the printout actually means.
> ....

That isn't the most serious security problem, in my opinion.  Does
anyone know of a method for preventing a student from having someone
else answer the questions, short of having a supervised room for taking
the quizzes?  This issue -- and the cost of staffing the room in
question -- has prevented me from thinking about computerized quizzes.
For practice only, the feature of randomizing the questions that are
presented is unnecessary, and perhaps in some circumstances even
counterproductive.
--
Maurice Barnhill, mvb@udel.edu
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~barnhill/
Physics Dept., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716,

who is still recovering from being told on an exam that one of the
important features in Special Relativity is "length refraction."