Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Students approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, and the second takes too long...
This longing may be affected by the type of question (it's a lot easier to cheat on a true-false test than an essay exam) and it is certainly affected by frustration level. If you can't for the life of you remember one out of 100 multiple choice questions, it seems pretty darn stupid to risk the other 99 by looking over someone's shoulder. If you have gone through all 100 and haven't gotten one so far, you might feel you have less to lose by trying to pick up a couple answers the slimy...
...traditional method for fighting the theft of thought has been just that--traditional. It consists of putting a group of students in a room, making them put aside their outer garments and notebooks, and then letting them take the test under the scrutiny of proctors...
Some freaked-out colleges (and some not so weird, like Wellesley) seem to have realized this, and employ an alternative method to combat cheating--the "honor code" method. In this system, there are no "proctors"--just a room of test takers...
...each student becomes a proctor--looking around and checking out if anyone else is cheating. People are making sure that no one is looking at their test, or at anyone else's. And it is a lot easier for one student to notice when someone two feet away is looking at his paper than a proctor from 25 feet...