ProjectProposal-CharlesLeung
From CS160 User Interfaces Fa06
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Problem Description
In the current competitive school environment, there is a lot of pressure for students to excel in order to attain good grades and high scores in order to succeed. With this pressure, many students resort to cheating in order to get ahead. Even in a prestigious school like UC Berkeley, all too often students are caught cheating on tests. People tend to cheat on tests in lecture halls and other classroom settings. We propose to use technology like the Anoto to reduce students' temptation to cheat on tests.
Target User Group
Our target user groups are teachers and students. Teachers need the system to be robust enough to handle large groups of students. Teachers also need the system to be able to detect cheaters by recording the time and way people answer questions. Teachers should also be able to have digital records of a student’s submission because it would allow teachers to allow students to take home their tests and ask for re-grades.
Students need the system to be robust enough to be able to take the test without having to worry too much about the Anoto anti-cheating system.
The education level for the teachers will generally be fairly high because most teachers are college graduates. The education level of the students will depend on what kind of school this system is deployed in.
Teachers
Needs -way to encourage honesty
Wants -use as little manpower as possible
Students (honest ones...)
Needs -to be able to take a test without being hassled too much
Wants -to prevent other students from cheating
Problem Context and Forces
In addition to cheating while taking the test, some students try to take advantage of the re-grading process. We need to ensure that our solution will protect both of these situations.
The system should be scaleable so that the teachers can choose how much involvement they should have in the process. For example, a handful of teachers cannot spend too much time monitoring a large class and some processes would have to depend on computers. If the class is very small however, then the teachers can afford to spend more time manually overseeing the process.
The system should also be simple enough so that that are not extremely tech-savvy are able to use it. The system could also have more complicated settings so that teachers that are more comfortable with technology can also use more advanced features.
Although the motivation for the teachers will be to encourage honesty, they also would like to minimize the disruption to their students.
Currently spacing students out and banning digital devices are examples of low-tech ways to prevent cheating. However, these methods do not completely prevent students from cheating.
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