U.S. students will take the SAT online
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#2This sounds more about cuttings costs than anything else.
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#3This sounds more about cuttings costs than anything else.
It sounds like efficiency.
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#4This sounds more about cuttings costs than anything else.
Agreed; this will further devalue these standardized tests when the results cannot be fully trusted and stop correlating with academic success.
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#5This sounds more about cuttings costs than anything else.
It sounds like efficiency.
Anybody that's taken a proctored online exam in high schools knows that this is absolutely not about efficiency. With universities rolling back test-optional pandemic policies, the College Board is likely to raise the price of exams and drive down the cost of administering them by gutting support. I'd predict more frequent exam dates once people have absorbed the price increase. Driving that velocity requires online administration.
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#6"This week, students in the U.S. will begin taking the new SAT on their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or on school devices."
I'd thought "never trust the client device" was the golden rule to prevent cheating. A background process that reads the display and fills in the field when you start typing would be difficult to detect.
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#7This sounds more about cuttings costs than anything else.
Agreed; this will further devalue these standardized tests when the results cannot be fully trusted and stop correlating with academic success.
I don't know why the above got downvoted - it's absolutely true. There is a reason I have to go into a testing center or sit there with my camera on with a proctor watching when taking cloud exams.
I don't see how hard it can be to keep organizing SATs once a year - plus it really does generate a shared identity, which is something we are all sorely lacking. It was a big event to go to a different school to take the SAT.
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#9"This week, students in the U.S. will begin taking the new SAT on their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or on school devices." I'd thought "never trust the client device" was the golden rule to prevent cheating. A background process that reads the display and fills in the field when you start typing would be difficult to detect.
I don't know if they'll have a software based 'anti-cheat' but you could be completely undetectable using this method:
HDMI out into splitter from graphics card or tablet, whatever. Use secondary box to ingest video and spit out answers on an alternate display.
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#10"This week, students in the U.S. will begin taking the new SAT on their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or on school devices." I'd thought "never trust the client device" was the golden rule to prevent cheating. A background process that reads the display and fills in the field when you start typing would be difficult to detect.
Seems like this could be a big win for local LLMs =D