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.
Iım reminded of two things:
1) Although I donıt 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
couldnıt recognise them.
2) A colleague being called by an invigilator to positively identify a
female student wearing a burka, whoıs photo ID had her in a burka I canıt
imagine the cultural difficulties with such a situation.
Maybe, the best way forward for academic verificationı - something I will
be talking about in tonightıs #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
friend
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 Parentıs realı signature,
and this clearly fake one :-) Only then did the whole thing unravel, when
his Mother was told heıd tried to pass off her genuine signature as a
fraudulent copy.
Mike
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