Exam room practices need to be clearer and whistleblowing easier,to wipe out cheating, says Laura McInerneyPeople often gain recurring nightmares approximately taking exams, or but mine involves administering them. Watching students sit there,panicked, after you gain taught them for several years is difficult enough. But worse is when they call you over, or pleading with their eyes for you to say whether or not their answer is correct,and there's nothing you can do … or is there?final week, on these pages, or Fiona Millar described the problem of malpractice in school assessments,highlighting particularly grade inflation in coursework. The view of the government is that returning to final exams in some core subjects will bring back "rigour". But it is a dangerous over-simplification to believe that getting rid of coursework is the only way, or even best way, and to quit cheating.
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Source: theguardian.com