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At Anglia, first year students whose mother tongue is not English may use a dictionary in exmas. I am impressed with Lincoln's process for limiting the opportunities for cheating. We have nothing that sophisticated in place - invigilators do spot checks on dictionaries during the exam. We may look at that again! Sue Sings On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:32:48 +1300 "Adams, Chris" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Marie, > > The policy at Lincoln University is that any student whose mother > tongue is not English may use a dictionary in exams. Students > provide theri own dictionaries and no restriction is placed on > content, so long as it is a genuine dictionary. They are required to > submit their dictionaries to the Examinations Office at least 7 days > before the exam session commences for staff to inspect them. The > dictionaries are labeled with students' names and exams, dates and > locations (completed by the students). These dictionaries are then > despatched to exam rooms with exam materials for each exam indicated. > Students may not take them away with them between exams, only after > final exam. > > Electronic dictionaries are prohibited because it is too difficult > these days to distinguish between those which can and those which > cannot be programmed, particularly if they are in Japanese etc! > > Chris > > >Resent-from: "Smyth, Roger" <KAHU/SMYTHR> > >Resent-to: treeby, adamsc, broadway > >Resent-date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:44:31 +1300 > >Received: from SpoolDir by KAHU (Mercury 1.44); 18 Feb 99 01:58:47 +1300 > >Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> > >Received: from kauri.lincoln.ac.nz (138.75.10.7) by kahu.lincoln.ac.nz (Mercury 1.44) with ESMTP; > > 18 Feb 99 01:58:45 +1300 > >Received: from mailout1.mailbase.ac.uk by kauri.lincoln.ac.nz > > (PMDF V5.1-11 #D3074) with ESMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, > > 18 Feb 1999 01:56:57 +1300 (NZD) > >Received: from naga.mailbase.ac.uk (naga.mailbase.ac.uk [128.240.226.3]) > > by mailout1.mailbase.ac.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA16198; Wed, > > 17 Feb 1999 12:57:16 +0000 (GMT) > >Received: (from daemon@localhost) by naga.mailbase.ac.uk (8.8.x/Mailbase) > > id MAA02477; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:55:03 +0000 (GMT) > >Received: from exch-staff.livjm.ac.uk ([150.204.254.54]) > > by naga.mailbase.ac.uk (8.8.x/Mailbase) with ESMTP id MAA02469; Wed, > > 17 Feb 1999 12:55:01 +0000 (GMT) > >Received: from RH09333S (JM2307.livjm.ac.uk [150.204.161.137]) > > by exch-staff.livjm.ac.uk with SMTP > > (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2232.9) > > id FC1YC05T; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:01:45 +0000 > >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:01:44 -0500 (EST) > >From: BLTMWAR1 <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Re: use of dictionaries in exams > >Sender: [log in to unmask] > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Errors-to: [log in to unmask] > >Reply-to: [log in to unmask] > >Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> > >MIME-version: 1.0 > >X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows Version 4.0.5 > >Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII > >Priority: NORMAL > >Precedence: list > >Original-Sender: [log in to unmask] > >X-Authentication: none > >X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'leave admin-student' to [log in to unmask] > >X-List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > >X-List: [log in to unmask] > >X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 0 > > > > > >We are having a bit of a debate here regarding whether > >overseas students should be allowed to use dictionaries in > >exams.My view is no, however, I would be interested to know > >if any other institutions have any specific policies on > >this ? All comments gratefully welcomed. > > > >Marie Ward > >University Examinations Officer > >Liverpool John Moores University. > > > >---------------------- > >Marie Ward > >[log in to unmask] > > > > > > ---------------------- Sue Sings Anglia Polytechnic University [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%