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by Bruce Lee

domingo, 22 de febrero de 2015

Could we do exams at home?


Some years ago a Selectivity exam talked about this possibility. Read about this in this newspaper article appeared in The Guardian:   EXAMS

44 comentarios:

  1. I think that this is a new way of doing exams that can work. The students would be less nervous in their homes and would do better their exams and get better marks. Also the students who live very far and that have more difficulty to move will have more possibilities of doing the exam with more facility. But I think that all that has a disadvantage, the students will be less monitored and they will be copied easily.
    Mireya González Paredes 2ºA BACH

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  2. I think that this can be very useful because it can help students because when they are doing the exams they are very nervous, so this new invigilation software could them do this exams in their houses besides they will not nervous and they will not distracted because they will alone in their bedroom.This tecnologie, which is experimeting at University of Wales Institute, can be very useful too because the people who are ill could do their exam without problems.The tecnologie make our life more easily and I think that this invention can help people a lot in the future.
    Carmen Presenta Prados Ramón 2ºA

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  3. I never heard the possibility of making tests in your own bedroom! Maybe it is the solution of a lot of things.
    On the one hand, this possibility can helps people who live away, and people who can't walk. Besides, the people who get nervous in the exam and they can't finish the exam for the time, to make tests in their bedrooms can be their solution.
    On the other hand, if we make tests in our bedrooms, we won't ask any question of the test to the teacher, so, who will answer to us the doubts about the test?
    Concluding, I think that is better to make tests in our houses above people who can't go to the school.
    By: Noelia Fernández Béjar 2º Bach A

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  4. I think making test at home is a good idea because we usually get very nervous before tests and we can't show all our knowledge and as result of that, we get an unfair mark. It is also an advantage for people who live further away, they don't need to travel to the place where the test takes place. The problem can be that it is not sure that people cannot copy.
    By: Anna Rodríguez 1°Bach A

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  5. I think this kind of tests don't help students because they will find a new way to break the rules. It also encourages a sedentary lifestyle and prevents direct contact between students and teachers. I think the things you have always done well and have given good results should remain as always.

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  6. In my opinion doing exams at home is a great advantage for the students, because they can do the exams more comfortably and they will be more relaxed and less nervous than in the classroom. I think that the marks will be better so the education will improve with this advance. I would like to do my exams in my bedroom very much because it would be like doing the homeworks so I won´t be so nervous when I do exams.
    María Rojas Robledo 2º Bach B

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  7. I think doing the exams in our home it´s a good idea because you are quitter than in class. But there are a problem, if the sutudents copy when there are a teacher whit them, when they are alone they copy much, but if tecnology is good they can improve it. I think they have to improve this.

    Ana Béjar Sánchez 2ºBach B

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  8. I think that making exams in home could be a good idea if the sistem is really sure. It will be a good idea because you won't be nervous and I think you will be more sure about yourself. Hawever, I don't trust in this sistem. I think that, like it's new, it will have lot of problems, and it will be lot of confusions with students and the exam.
    To sum up, I can say that it will be a good idea provided that the sistem is really sure.

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  9. I think that doing exams at home could be more comfortable than at class, but although the technology used to avoid cheating, I think more than one person could cheating, so that's a good idea but I think it's better to do the exams at class, being controlated by teachers than at home.
    Mari Gloria Lozano Prados 1º BACH A

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  10. I don´t like this system . I think if I had to use it, I would be more nervous because If I had a doubt I couldn´t ask to the teacher. However, I think it´s a good idea but isn´t ready yet, maybe in 10 years students will be able to do tests at home but not today, at least in Spain. Also, I think that if we could choose the day to do the test, I am sure that we would do them the last day and we won´t show all our knowledge because I think that we need a little of stress to show our best part of us.
    BY: María González

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  11. In my opinion do the exams in our house is impossible, because there are a lot of people copy in the exams in the class, if there are exams in our house all people copy. The camera isn´t very safe to copy.
    I think is a good idea to do the exams in our house, but in my opinion is impossible to do exams in our house.
    By: William:)

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    1. In my opinion I think that it is impossible because we can’t do the exams anywhere. You can’t do the exams without cameras, teachers … Because you can cheat by searching in Internet.

      So we need to do exams in class, even if we aren't so comfortable

      Alberto jr.

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  13. Would be a dream come true, one day, I did again a exam in my home, a exam of math that after time I saw what bad it was, and I did perfect (when I did in my home). But this is not equal. A true exam always will be that, in the school or in your house, the home´s tranquility not mean nothing in a official exam. Although is a wonderful news by all people are forced to stay in home

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  14. I think that this option of making exams in home is very well because where we usually study is in our bedroom (where is normally the computer) and I think it isn´t the same make a exam in a class that make a exam in our bedroom, where we study.
    I had doubts about making exams at home but the article explain very good that there isn´t danger that students are being copied while they is making the exam.
    I think this is going to do in the future and in a few years you will not need to go to class because of advances in computer.

    Enrique García Prados 2ºA Bachiller

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  15. I think this is pointless. What are they trying to say us? That we will do better exams if we are in our homes? Or maybe, they want us to be a bit more robotic students? We have already had enough to go school, for they to want us to make our bedroom an improvised classroom. We should have to change the decoration in our room and leave them somehow not suspicious. If they wanted me to do that exams now, I should probably have to change the decoration (and even if is changed, maybe they don't like it and they 'could' reject me), and that's something I don't want to care of.
    I wonder (if this stupid system goes ahead in the whole world), technological sciences' students would be able to learn how to cheat the cameras? And, in that case, maybe one of their exams could be to nullify the annoying cameras... -just a joke, hehe.

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  16. I think the tests can not be done at home because at home we have the means to see the questions and do not have a teacher to explain to us what they asked to do must be done in class.
    by: laura trujillo reyes 2ºbach B

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  17. we have the exam in the class because in the house is imposible,
    we can see the questions in the internet and we don´t learn nothing if
    we do the exam in the house.

    The school is the best place to do the exams .

    Laura Pretel Donaire. 1ºBach C

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  18. I think that working at home is a convenient way to perform your duties, although it is important to have a person who controls your work.
    Make test in your own home may be fine for those who don't have much time, but sometimes, when you don't live alone, this can be uncomfortable because there are noises and other things that can cause that you are not concentrate.
    In my opinion, it is good to try everything, and sometimes everything can come in handy,it all depends of your studies and your form of organization.

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  19. I think the best place to do the exam is in school because it is quiet and in house is impossible because we can see the questions in the book and we don´t learn nothing if we do the exam in the house.

    Francisco Garcia Garcia 2B

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  20. Would fantastic do the exams on house.because we would be quiet and relaxed,however we can copy of the book, even so I like.


    ALBERTO ANTEQUERA GONZÁLEZ 2ºB

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  21. I think it's a new and practical way to do the exams at home, since you're more comfortable and people get nervous in class. You will not be so nervous at home.

    But it is also has its disadvantages: at home sometimes there are noises that bother you and you can't concentrate, you don't have any teacher to ask if you've questions in any exercise, and there are people with a teacher controlling not to cheat.

    María Béjar Rodríguez 2º ESO A

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  22. I think it's a new and practical way to do the exams at home, since you're more comfortable and people get nervous in class. You will not be so nervous at home.

    But it also has its disadvantages: at home sometimes there are noises that bother you and you can't concentrate, you don't have any teacher to ask if you've questions in any exercise, and there are people with a teacher controlling not to cheat.

    María Béjar Rodríguez 2º ESO A

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  23. I think the best place to do an exam is at school because we can do a question for the teacher for we can know the answer

    but too is good do exams at home because the students can stay more quiet and relaxed but there is a bad thing or a good thing that is the students can copy of other students or the book for me is a bad thing because the mark of all students will be 10

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  24. I think it's a good way to make the tests as they are not widely practiced in class and we get too nervous and sometimes have little time to make them and do not have time to acabar.Pero has its disadvantages, which can cheat in the examination even noticing it then, I think.

    Lourdes2a

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  25. Technology nowadays has advanced greatly. We are surrounded by things that our ancestors never thought that would exist, for example, mobiles, computers, the Internet revolution, and even technological houses have been built. All this makes our life more comfortable, and now, we can't imagine what our lives would be without technology.

    A few years ago, schools began to be computerized. Firstly, computers have been installed in all classes, and then, whiteboards. Many people thought paper books could be replaced by e-books. Moreover, people considered the possibility of giving lessons and doing exams online, so that students do not have to move from their home.

    This proposal has some advantages, however, I think it has more disadvantages. For example, if lessons are taken online, students can't comunicate with their friends, and what's more, they can't play with them. Besides, they could cheat in exams looking for the answers in the Internet, so someone must be overseeing them.

    Taking all this into account, I think that doing the selectivity exam online at home is not a good option because it's more difficult to concentrate. Because of this, I prefer to do it on paper, as always. I believe that the current method is the best for students.

    Clara Prados. 2ºBACH.

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  26. I think that make the exams in house is most comfortable, because you can make the exam and see in your book the answer of some question that you can't. But if you make the exam in the school with all your partner and your teacher and you have some questions about the exam you can ask to your teacher, but in the school you go be more nervous.
    the last year I saw my sister make an exam of french by internet and she had a little time for answer one question, and she could make it only once.

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  27. Home schooling
    Home schooling could become more popular soon, as it is now possible for students to be examined at home. A firm from the United States called Software Secure In has developed a technology, Securexam Remote Proctor which allows pupil to identify themselves by their fingerprints to take the exam, and also insures that they do not cheat. This new invention will allow handicapped pupils and students who have difficulty getting to exam-centre to sit exams.

    One of the main criticisms of home schooling is that the curriculums and pupils are very isolated from the main educational system, but with the technologies developed over the last ten years this may change. So it is now possible to have face to face tutoring over the internet and even participate in a class.

    Who knows what the future may hold? I think that we may all be doing home schooling in twenty years’ time.

    Julia Ruiz Jimenez 3ºB

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  28. I think put exams in house it would be better for students, already they would be alone would have less pressure and they would answer better to the questions, and they could get better notes. The problems are the people could cheat easily although with the news technology allows students to sit tests at home while computer lock, webcam and microphone. But I think doing a exam in class is more easy for the teacher. Who knows,like enough in ten years there are exams in house.

    Alberto Antequera González 3ºB

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  30. I think it's easier to do a test at home because you are under pressure, we are more comfortable, you can check and you usually have more time to do the exam. Also we can find in a book, a notebook or computer. I have still not done any test in my home but I wish they were all in the house. The exams at school these your most overwhelmed, you have more pressure and you can not find in anywhere. For teachers it is easier to put him in school, he can see that copy, also you learn more with facts exams at school, for teachers is easier to correct. I think it's better to do a test at home but really is best done in school.
    Alvaro Ruiz Rodriguez 3A

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  31. I think make exams at home is much better than make exams at school because at home it's more comfortable and you are more relaxed, you have more time to do the exam, you're under pressure and you can see the answers in the book. I reckon that make exams at home is good for many students but it is bad too, because if you search the answer in the book you don`t learn anything. For the teachers the best option is make the exams in the school because they can see if you copy the answers or no. The bad thing of this is that they must check the errors writing in the exams and in the other option they don't have to check the errors because the computer check them. Most of people don't copy in exams but there are people who cheat in exams with new technologies like mobile phones, websites where they can copy the answers and many ways more so, the teachers must be very attentive. Do exams at home is good but it has its problems too!!!:)

    Joaquín Alejandro España Sánchez 3ESOB

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  32. I reckon the advantage of doing exams at home is mainly because you are more comfortable and less nervous. However we most would respect no exam time and even would devote more minutes to do each exercise, without forgetting that we would try to make it perfect copying or consulting books.

    Although doing exams in high school makes us very nervous if we have studied enough, no matter what we do there while the teacher keeps us from cheating and thus show that we are really prepared topass.

    Paola Ruiz Fernández 3º ESO A.

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  33. I think doing exams at home is much better than doing exams at school because at home it's more comfortable and you are more relaxed, you have more time to do the exam, you're under pressure and you can see the answers in the book. I reckon that make exams at home is good for many students but it is bad too, because if you search the answer in the book you don`t learn anything. For the teachers the best option is make the exams in the school because they can see if you copy the answers or not . The bad thing of this is that they must check the errors writing in the exams and in the other option they don't have to check the errors because the computer checks them for them. Most people don't copy in exams but there are people who cheat in exams with new technologies like mobile phones, websites where they can copy the answers and many more ways, so the teachers must be very attentive. Doing exams at home is good but it has its problems too!!!:)

    Joaquín Alejandro España Sánchez 3ESOB

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  34. I think doing exams at home is much better than doing exams at school because it´s more comfortable and quiet. I think that the persons who doing the exams in their houses are a incredible persons because are lucky. I do the exams in the school with my friends, but sometimes they speak a lot of and I get nervous. The teachers think that the best form of doing the exams is in the school because you can´t copy and you´ve the similar conditions as other. In the future I would like the exams in my home, but I reckon isn´t possible.

    Francisco García García 3ESO B.

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  35. Really? It would be the dream all of us, but I can't believe you will be able to do an exam from your bed one day. I think that it is better to do exams in class with teachers, because at home you can cheat and maybe you don't revise for the exam and so, you fail it. It’s true that in class you are nervous with too much pressure, but you can ask the teacher if you don't know any exercise. For the bad students, this is a problem, because in class, teachers for to beat it, can ban mobile phones and cameras. The head teacher can suspend or expel students who cheat.

    I think that cheating in exams is easy with the new technology and as in the past, with little notes and writing notes on your arms. But the truth is that cheats never win, and winners never cheat.

    It is a good idea for the people who can’t move, either because they are disabled or because they live very far.

    The best solution would be not to do any exams at all, in class or in your bedroom.

    Andrea Gutiérrez López 3º ESO B

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  37. Nowadays, technology is more and more developed. Thanks to this technology, we can do many more things than some years ago. We can buy things, read, chat and now… we can even do exams on line!

    Doing exams at home with your computer, a few years ago it was impossible! Nowadays, some universities are thinking of doing the exam online with many safety measures. It can be good for students because they can do their exam when they want it. They can choose the best time to do the exam. For example, some students prefer doing the exam during the night.

    But everything isn’t so good, from my point of view there are some things I disagree with. First, people can copy. Although there are many safety measures, many intelligent students can think of something to cheat. As well, students are being watched all the time and they may become nervous. If they are nervous, they will not do well in the exam!

    This initiative could be a good idea, but there are some disadvantages. I think, most universities and schools won’t use it because people prefer doing exam in a classroom with more students and a teacher.

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  38. This proposal have advantages and disadvantage.
    On the on ehand,I think that the students would be less nervous for do an exam,and benefits to al the students that live far of school;but,on the other hand,with this idea would be easier copied.

    Claudia RG 2°BACH

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  39. I think it is a good idea because if you are ill, you can do the exams at home.Also, you can be less nervous and more relaxed and you can take more time to think. But there are some disadvantages too. For example, you can copy from the internet, you can't ask doubts to your teacher, etc. This is not fair for the people who study for the exams and do them at the school.

    MARGARITA LLANES VENEGAS 3ºA

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  41. Since the school exist, the exams has been done in class with the teachers and the other students, but the news technologies in other countries have to permiter do the exams to the differents forms, for example; with the computer, but if you decide do ther exam by computer you are also vigilate for the camera and you can't cheat.
    In mi opinion, is better do the exams with the computer in your house, because they will are more comfrtable, and less nervous.

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  42. I reckon that do exams in your bedroom or in your livingroom are impossible but if you do a exman in your house you have more time to do the exam, you're without pressure and you can see the answers in the book.

    It’s true that in class you are nervous with too much pressure, but you can ask the teacher if you don't know any exercise.

    I think that in the future people give class in your homes with pads , computers , smartphones etc...

    Jose Manuel Diaz España 3º

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  43. I am not for or against because this two ways have good things and bad things, for example

    Do exams at school we can do a question to the teacher if we don´t know anything, this is a positive thing but
    there are a bad thig too for example some people are very stressed doing exams at school.

    If we do exams at home we can be more quiet this is a very positive thing but if students search questions in internet, i think it´s impossible control this

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