{"id":1242,"date":"2012-06-19T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T18:33:24","slug":"asking-the-wrong-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"asking the wrong question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent question (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/q\/438636\/978\">Is it possible to trace someone using Google during an online exam?<\/a>&#8220;) on superuser had me thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2006\/09\/28\/ask-the-right-question\">asking the right question<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to design an online exam for over 1000 students via around 50 computers right after the vacation ends. Now the problem is that I have heard that many students use Google on a different tab to find answers when no invigilator is around.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know if there is a way to backtrace it after the exams via some kind of history or any other possible way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, already, the premise is <strong><em>WRONG<\/em><\/strong>!!<\/p>\n<p>The asker is a professor. Sadly, that means he&#8217;s likely even more skewed in his <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/09\/15\/the-ticket-smash-raw-metrics-and-communication-how-to-have-a-successful-support-organization\">bias<\/a> than most people (after all, he is an expert at his subject). He should have asked a more fundamental question, since he <strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0asking for <a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/content\/m40795\/latest\/?collection=col11350\/latest\">support<\/a>, but he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to catch a cheater, which is what his question is\u00a0going\u00a0for, he should have asked how to structure an exam for open-book responses &#8211; many\/most of my instructors and professors at college had open-book, open-note tests: and those of us who either knew the material, or knew where to find it, did great. Everyone else? Not so much &#8211; they viewed &#8220;open-book&#8221; as &#8220;don&#8217;t study&#8221;. Personally, I <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/a\/438805\/978\">loved<\/a> open-book tests, because it meant the questions were going to be hard-but-answerable &#8230; if you knew where to find the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Professor: please just learn how to structure a good test, and not how to slap your students for doing what they&#8217;re going to do when they get to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2006\/10\/31\/is-plagiarism-really-so-bad\">real world<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent question (&#8220;Is it possible to trace someone using Google during an online exam?&#8220;) on superuser had me thinking about asking the right question again. I want to design an online exam for over 1000 students via around 50 computers right after the vacation ends. Now the problem is that I have heard that &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1242\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">asking the wrong question<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11,22,23],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-education","category-ideas","category-insights"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}