Posts Tagged ‘student id verification’
SAT Cheating Scandal: Security Flaws and Questionable Ethics
The New York Times reports that over 2 million students have taken their SATs and there were 3,000 scores questioned and 1,000 canceled. Now there will be more stringent identification verification processes put in place with a photo ID card to validate identity.
With TV shows like "Suits" on USA TV or movies like "The Perfect Score" glorifying taking short cuts and cheating, it seems that we are missing the life lessons around making bad choices. It's not just the under achiever trying to steal the answers.
Authorities in Long Island, N.Y., have been going after a collection of young adults who have impersonated others to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or were clients who paid the fake testers to produce enviable results. As much as $3,500 have exchanged hands, according to news reports about the investigation by Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice.
So far 20 people have been arrested, including a pair of lawyers' sons now attending Emory University in Atlanta and Tulane in New Orleans.
Read more by Linda P. Campbell, a Star-Telegram editorial writer here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/28/3843216/sat-test-cheating-scandal-is-as.html#storylink=cpy
Reduce Costs, Increase Academic Integrity
With online enrollment increasing 12% annually, BSI’s solutions can be used efficiently in distance learning environments including discussion groups, attendance checking, paper submissions, or accessing personal student files. A recent proof-of-technology pilot was run at Houston Community College with Biometric Signature ID with the following goals:
Meet HEOA and SACS requirements
Assess biometric technology as a cost-effective way of addressing online student security
Ensure accuracy and ease of use
Measure student acceptance of new identity verification software
Use a biometric system where no hardware is required
Reduce / eliminate proctoring
Test a system where students create their unique password by just drawing shapes/letters/numbers with their mouse
Results in the publication of a pilot study found the following results:
Student verification is intuitive and simple to use
Protects students’ privacy
Only requires a student to create a profile one time during his or her relationship with the institution
Includes a process to easily distribute, revoke, renew, and replace credentials in the event of loss
Identifies students with a high accuracy ensuring regulatory compliance
Can be used at login or for periodic, random challenges
Increases security within learning management and other IT systems
Can authenticate tests, as well as other types of assessments such as written work and participation
Reduces costs associated with proctoring
May be integrated within the university website or portal, ...
NISOD Panel: Identity Proofing for Online Student ID Verification
With more courses being delivered online, educational institutions need to implement a low-cost, reliable student identity verification solution to manage growth and compliance issues
Isn't it time to raise the bar on student verification? Meeting and exceeding federal requirements is a costly process especially with more students taking courses and exams online. Add privacy concerns to systems being used today and we can see how current systems fall short on verifying the actual user.
Monday, May 30th 2011 at 11:15 AM in Room 17B - Level 4 - Educational Technology -
NISOD 2011 Conference
Identity Proofing for Online Student ID Verification: Houston Community College Pilot
This presentation will take the audience through the steps that HCC went through in evaluating and validating a student ID verification technology for use as one that will be cost effective, reliable, reduce proctoring costs, 98% user friendly as well as increase academic integrity and school reputation.
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All conference attendees who register and attend this panel are automatically entered to win a $75 Restaurant.com Certificate.
The winner will be announced at the Biometric Signature ID booth following the above presentation at 2 PM.
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Simplify Student “Identity Proofing”
Higher education is responsible for nearly 25% of all the 250M data breaches in the US, so it's important to protect students from having their identities stolen and meet the student identity verification requirements as outlined in the the 2008 Education Act guidelines. BioSig-ID™ offers a simple, affordable solution that does not require hardware and exceeds the evolving identity management policies for student integrity in distance education.
With online enrollment increasing 12% annually, BSI’s solutions can be used efficiently in distance learning environments including discussion groups, attendance checking, paper submissions, or accessing personal student files.
BioSig-ID™ captures the way the student moves/draws their secret code with their mouse when they enroll in the system and creates a profile that is used to compare their signature using random, periodic, challenges. The student also enrolls in BSI’s second layer of "identity proofing" ClickID™ an image pattern recognition technology. The integrated solution offers a unique closed loop that allows the student ability to perform an automatic password re-set and avoid costly help desk calls.
BSI is the world’s only patented dynamic gesture biometric technology for Internet, Intranet, Fixed or Mobile devices
Accuracy exceeds NIST standards
Provides exceptional Depth-in-Defense Authentication
Assures non-repudiation of origin (NRO) without the ...
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