answered too quickly & too accurately

answered too quickly & too accurately

by Susan Fleming -
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Hello

We have a series of quizzes in a self-paced course on version 2.6.4 with 8 - 40 short answer questions in each quiz; answers are taken from a government manual and are in the form of: 23.5(2), 12/13 2b, etc. (section, sub-section, and sometimes paragraph).  Quizzes are populated randomly but from a very small pool of questions - 4-5 spares for each quiz.

 

Usually it takes the average student from 15 minutes to 90 minutes to complete the quizzes and they usually get between 75% and 95%.  In the past week we have had a number students complete all, including the longest 40 question quiz, in 3 minutes or less and get between 95% and 100% on ALL the quizzes. 

The length of time the logs show spent on each quiz is not enough time for a speed reader to read all the questions let alone answer them.  Any suggestions as to how these students are comleting the quizzes would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

Susan

fleming@cotr.bc.ca

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Re: answered too quickly & too accurately

by Tim Hunt -
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I think it can only be that a person, or some people, have carefully compiled a list of all the questions and the right answers. (Try Googling for some key terms from the questions, or some of the answers, to see if you can find it posted online, but it probably has not been posted publicly.)

Given a list of questions and answers, it would probably not be too hard to make something like a Greasemonkey script, which fills in the quiz automatically.

How can you combat this? More random questions would make this harder. Also, where to students complete this quiz? Is it in their own time, on their own computer, in private? You could consider making students come into one of your computer rooms, with a proctor/invigilator.

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Re: answered too quickly & too accurately

by Scott Brim -

or perhaps screenscraping - using a program to understand your HTML and automatically fill in answers.

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