Censorship – Telegram
option, would it be a sustainable one?
Is blocking Telegram year in year out going to solve national exams
leakage/cheating? Or is it just a lazy way of trying to look like you are
doing something to curb the leakage/cheating while indeed there are many
other platforms that work in a similar way that candidates can use to
achieve the vice?
If we continue to encourage this, the next thing they’ll block is the
entire internet as they are aware that blocking platforms is easily
bypassed by VPNs which is a well known strategy by the perpetrators of exam
leaks.
A possible solution is making High School Exam grading to be similar to
University Exam grading where every exam from the start counts on your
final results which is attained by averaging all end of term/sem marks for
each unit to attain the final grade. This I postulate will reduce the
demand for exam leakage.
On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 6:36 AM Liz Orembo via KICTANet <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> We all need civic education. And I’m trying to be polite to brothers and
> sisters who feel its okay for the government to wake up and schedule a
> network disruption because they have failed to curb exam cheating and
> because they feel they owe nothing to other citizens who depend on the
> network for their businesses and other things.
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> Best regards.
> Liz.
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> On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 at 19:52, Victor Kapiyo via KICTANet <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Meanwhile, Telegram is still blocked on some networks. Someone still
>> thinks it’s a brilliant move.
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>> No more exam cheating…
>>
>> Well Done! 🤦🏿♂️
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>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, 13:55 Benson Muite via KICTANet, <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 11/11/2024 2.57 pm, Alloys Siaya via KICTANet wrote:
>>> > Agree entirely with Ali.
>>> >
>>> > Good governance requires transparency, communication, clear
>>> explanation.
>>> > Otherwise people doubt your intentions and competence, however good.
>>> And
>>> > that doesn’t augur well for the industry/society.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Probably the exam process needs to be updated. As the new curriculum
>>> has a significant continuous assessment component, a significant part of
>>> the exams could be automated. Ideally each school (or schools within a
>>> ward) would have a computer lab that could be connected to the internet
>>> and many tests could be given remotely and marked automatically. This
>>> would mean that most tests would not need to be printed, and that the
>>> questions could differ by candidate. Of course for some subjects,
>>> automated testing is difficult, for example free response essay and
>>> comprehension questions, but where multiple choice or other similar
>>> formats can be used, this would curb cheating and reduce test costs.
>>>
>>> > Rgds,
>>> > A. Siaya.
>>> >
>>>