Am not advocating this for universities, but IELTS uses fingerprint scanning http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/book-your-test/terms-and-conditions/ielts-candidate-identity-verification
Carol
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From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Reddy
Sent: 22 June 2016 10:16
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Subject: Re: Impersonation
Amanda said:
>At the University of Waterloo, we have implemented closer scrutiny of
>photo identification at exams Not only will the students id card be
>checked against the facial identity of the person present to write the
>exam, moreover, the id cards are scanned on site to corroborate the
>students information stripe on the back of the card with the id of the
>student. Apparently, the stripe is much harder to copy than the photo
>on the card.
>
>We have found this to be a great deterrent against identification fraud.
I¹m reminded of two things:
1) Although I don¹t miss the days when lecturers at my former institution (The University of Glamorgan) had to invigilate their own exams - something that afforded great benefit, as the person setting could immediately address concerns with papers, unless on the very rare occasions when they set multiple papers that could not be housed in the same location - the fact that you were an encouraging presence with a class that knew you, and you knew, the idea of photo IDs was not necessary, unless a student had been so remiss in attending that you couldn¹t recognise them.
2) A colleague being called by an invigilator to positively identify a female student wearing a burka, who¹s photo ID had her in a burkaŠ I can¹t imagine the cultural difficulties with such a situation.
Maybe, the best way forward for Œacademic verification¹ - something I will be talking about in tonight¹s #LTHEchat on twitter (PLUG:
https://lthechat.com/2016/06/19/lthechat-59-essay-mills-and-academic-verifi
cation-the-sky-is-falling-the-sky-is-falling-with-dr-mike-reddy-doctormiker
eddy/ /PLUG) by the way - would be handwriting samples. Unless a fake student sits ALL of the exams, with a correspondingly greater chance of discovery, potential abusers of the examination system - itself NOT a panacea for academic misconduct, it seems - will be like my old school friendŠ
He was an inveterate absentee from school, counterfeiting sick notes from his Mother for years. Only on the one occasion when he was genuinely ill, did the school notice a discrepancy between his Parent¹s Œreal¹ signature, and this clearly fake one :-) Only then did the whole thing unravel, when his Mother was told he¹d tried to pass off her genuine signature as a fraudulent copy.
Mike
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