Cheating
Mr. Ward|had a single ‵pet peeve — cheating.
Mr. Ward once told me of ‵some of the ways|students have tried to cheat. The list sounds like a ‵resume|for the movie Dumb and Dumber.
1. Student A intentionally|" ‵drops" his pencil|an unusually far distance from his desk. So he ‵stands up|and waltzes slowly across the room|to retrieve it. On the way|he passes an ‵innocent victim|whose paper is left slightly in the open. He ‵bends over slowly to get the pencil|and ‵walks back slowly glancing at papers left and right. The ‵funny thing is|during multiple-choice objective tests; the pencils seemed to fall ‵quite a lot. ‵Whereas short answer|and proof tests|had some magical spell|over the pencils to keep them from falling.
2.The ‵old cheat sheet|has been used for decades. The ‵idea|is you get a piece of paper|and you write down all the formulas, rules, notes, definitions, and everything else|that you will need for the test. And some how get ‵access to it, during the test. The most ‵common way|is with a tiny bit of paper taped to the inside of the kid's palm. Mr. Ward told me|that ‵one time the student gave the test with the hand|with the cheat sheet ‵stuck to it and Mr. Ward saw it instantly.
3. Two students|who were very good friends|decided that they ‵didn't want to study for a test|and they came up with an idea. ‵One student remembers half of the formulas|and the other remembers the other half. So when it ‵came to test time, they would each take their half of the test|and then tell the other person the answers. So what did they ‵do? The answer|was ‵Morse code, with pencils.②One kid would tap his pencil lightly five times| ‵indicating he needed the answer to number 5. Then the other kid would tap|what ever the answer was. Furthermore, they had a ‵whole system worked out for fractions, decimals, equations, and everything else.
作弊
考場(chǎng)上作弊是沃茲先生最討厭的事。
沃茲先生給我講了一些學(xué)生作弊的手法。聽那些故事就好像是在看聽《傻瓜和大傻瓜》的概述。
鏡頭一:A學(xué)生考試時(shí),故意讓手中的鉛筆“掉”到地上,因?yàn)槭枪室獾?,所以滾得很遠(yuǎn)。于是,他大大方方地站起來(lái),慢慢地橫穿教室去撿鉛筆。在去的路上,某個(gè)無(wú)辜的受害者的卷子微微的露在外面就被他“瞄”見了。然后,緩慢地蹲下身去撿鉛筆。在回座位的路上,又是左顧右盼。奇怪的是,如果考試是客觀的多項(xiàng)選擇題,“掉”鉛筆的人特別多;如果考簡(jiǎn)答題或論證題,大家的鉛筆就像著了魔一樣,都不“掉”了。
鏡頭二:抄小紙條這個(gè)伎倆已經(jīng)有很多年歷史了。在考試之前,把與考試有關(guān)的公式、法則、定義等等,密密麻麻地寫在一張小紙條上。把小紙條順利地帶進(jìn)考場(chǎng)的辦法是多種多樣的,最流行的方法是把小紙條藏在手心里。沃茲先生告訴我有一次,一位學(xué)生交卷時(shí)忘了左手心的秘密,用粘了小紙條的左手把試卷遞給老師,讓他抓了個(gè)正著。
鏡頭三:兩個(gè)好朋友不想為了考試而復(fù)習(xí)了,于是他們想出了一個(gè)辦法:一人記一半內(nèi)容。在考試時(shí)你做上半部,我做下半部,然后交換答案。為了對(duì)方得到答案,他們竟發(fā)明了一套完整的密碼系統(tǒng),配合鉛筆使用。②一位需要知道第五題的答案時(shí),他就用鉛筆在桌子上輕輕敲五下,另一位回敲兩次——表示答案是B。更有趣的是,他們竟然還為分?jǐn)?shù)、小數(shù)、方程式等都配了特殊的密碼。