Re: [LAU] Exam Cheating investigation

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:17:50 -0800 (PST)
Ivan K <ivan_521521@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I did not mean to send HTML.  Here is a plain text version.
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> Hello LAD/LAU members:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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

There are on-line resources that can identify a reasonable fragment of music,
and return plenty of information about it. She obviously knew this!

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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