Dear All
First of all many thanks if you responded to my query. Below is a summary
of how other institutions tackle the problem of mobile phones and other
electronic equipment in examinations.
Most institutions list mobile phones and other electronic equipment (such as
pagers) as prohibited material and forbid students to take them into exam
rooms. This information is disseminated in several ways: on the student's
individual timetable, in the instructions for candidates and by invigilators
when making announcements at the beginning of an exam.
If a student takes a phone into an exam room they are either asked to leave
the phone with their personal belongings or surrender the phone to an
invigilator. At one institution if students start an exam late because they
have had to hand in a phone they do not get extra time.
If the phone is surrendered to an invigilator the procedure for getting the
phone back is deliberately slow to discourage the student from bringing the
phone to future exams. A record is also kept of which students have had to
hand in phpnes.
Not too many institutions indicated how they deal with phones ringing in an
exam because they are prohibited material. However, at one institution
where a mobile is prohibited material, if a phone goes off, the candidate is
effectively failed and then sits a separate exam which is capped at a bare
pass.
In another institution, if a student is caught with a phone in the exam room it
would lead to a disciplinary hearing.
Regards
Andy
Dr Andy Robinson
Administrative Officer (Records and Examinations)
Student Administration Office
Queen Mary, University of London
Phone: 020-7882 5549
Fax: 020-7882 5588
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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