By Ashley Norris
01/03/22 – eLearning Industry
“Given the consequences of not passing an exam after spending, say, three years and $200,000 on law school, it’s not difficult to expect that some people will try to cheat the system or steal the test content.
Not too long ago, these cheating attempts were dramatically unsophisticated. It was pretty common, for example, for someone to sign up for a high-stakes test, go to the test center, get signed in, and then grab the test booklet and sprint for the door. Or they’d try to quietly rip a page or two from the test book to slip into their pants pockets and sell afterward to the highest bidder. They didn’t care about the consequences. Their sole intent was to grab content that somebody else would spend big bucks to have.
I can also tell you stories of test-takers who made temporary tattoos out of exam notes, spinning words into funky patterns or translating to obscure languages that look like poems or memorials. We’ve seen twins switch places during bathroom breaks, having stashed books and notes in restroom garbage cans.”…Read full article about how humans and tech must work together to stop cheating here.