Standard disclaimer: Just some thoughts from a conversation today. My thoughts on this are mine alone.
The conversation:
“We are afraid our students are cheating on tests.”
“How are they cheating”
“They are getting screen captures from the students in the term prior”
“OK, what are they doing with them?”
“They must be memorizing them and the answers prior to the test”
“How many questions are the tests?”
“Between 50 and 100”
“So your students are memorizing the questions, the possible answers, and the answer of a 50-100 question exam?”
“Yes”
“Are the questions and the answers scrambled?”
“Yes”
“So, the students are memorizing the questions, the answers, and the possible answers of a 100 question multiple choice test in which they have no idea of the order of the questions, right?”
“Yes”
“And we are worried about this, why?”
[long silence] “Hadn’t thought about it this way”
Anyone else see where I was going?