On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:32:14PM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:13:07 -0800 (PST) > Ivan K <ivan_521521@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello LAD/LAU members: > > > > I teach introduction to western music courses at a local > > community college, and one thing I have to deal with is > > students cheating by using a smart phone during the > > exam. Sure, I am in the room and occasionally walk > > down the aisles, but these enterprising students are still > > often able to hide a smart phone from me. > > > > The way these smart phone cheaters are usually caught > > is when answering an essay question, they usually > > look up the topic on Wikipedia and copy word for word > > several sentences. > > > > On these exams, there are a few audio identifications, > > and recently one student did a surprising thing. > > The audio example was from Pierrot Lunaire, and not only did > > answer the question by writing down the title and composer but > > she ALSO WROTE DOWN the title and composer of a track by Webern > > which was on the original CD that I ripped the Schoenberg > > from. > > > > To summarize, from an mp3/ogg file that was put on-line > > of one track from a CD, the student was able to identify > > _other_ tracks from the CD that were not put on-line. > > > > How did the student do this? Here are links to the two sound > > files that the students had access to: > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/66qkorouak19gpu/07_20th-pilu_p03_15-18.mp3 > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/z17qoxey9ju4lei/07_20th-pilu_p03_15-18.ogg > > > > Are there some tags embedded in these files? How would I > > be able to see these tags myself? > > > > If there are no embedded tags, how did this student obtain > > this information? > > > > Thanks; Ivan > > Another possibility: > There is also the possibility that the student was not cheating. > True, given the information you provided it seems unlikely, and you may > have additional indicators, but I'd simply ask her why she wrote down > that other track. > > In my humble opinion, you won't ged rid of smartphone cheats unless you > use a different mode of examination. It just shows that factoid > checking is an anachronism. > Or you could do your exams in a Faraday cage in the basement of the building. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
