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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0210090239oct09,0,3635457.story?coll=chi%2Dprintnews%2Dhed Online testing seen as anti-cheating aid Lisa Black, Tribune staff reporter The days of children hovering over tests with sharpened No. 2 pencils could be numbered as Illinois schools consider jumping into a national trend of online testing. Already, students in a handful of Illinois districts sit behind computers at school, tapping their answers to questions on a keyboard as they work alongside their peers, connected to a testing agency through the Internet.Among the many benefits seen in giving tests by computer are more accurate results, faster and better reporting and greater flexibility. Some proponents also believe they could help guard against the kind of cheating recently reported in Chicago's public schools. "In a computer adaptive test, the questions change as the student is answering," said Mark Ryan, a teaching instructor at National University in LaJolla, Calif. "Those would be very difficult to cheat on because you'd have this tremendous test data bank and it would be difficult for someone to memorize answers."...
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