Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by ThePadawan on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:08AM (#32438884)

This could never work without on-site invigilated exams. Otherwise you will never be able to prove that when Jack applies for a job, Jack took the test. You'll just get an industry of Johns taking the tests for people.

This is how language certification works (think TOEFL, IELTS), and that industry still suffers from a massive amount of fraud. If you make a certificate like this too expensive, it serves as a barrier for entry for candidates. If you make it too cheap, the people administering the test will start pushing through candidates as quickly as possible without any regard for academic honesty.

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Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by ghaff on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:57PM (#32441908)

I assume any certification exams where the results can be the difference between getting a good job and not face a huge amount of people who would cheat on them if they could. I know the ones I'm somewhat familiar with have a lot of safeguards in place to the degree that I gather some people found them pretty onerous with remote test taking in the pandemic.

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