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	<title>Comments on: Handwriting Analysis Can Tell Who Filled in Bubbles on Tests, Ballots</title>
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		<title>By: tax relief</title>
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		<dc:creator>tax relief</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Someone necessarily lend a hand to make severely articles I&#039;d state. That is the first time I frequented your web page and to this point? I amazed with the research you made to create this actual put up extraordinary. Wonderful activity!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone necessarily lend a hand to make severely articles I&#8217;d state. That is the first time I frequented your web page and to this point? I amazed with the research you made to create this actual put up extraordinary. Wonderful activity!</p>
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		<title>By: Jazz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jazz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JH- seriously! Nothing to do with handwriting, and frankly, if they want to know who I voted for , or if I cheated, faster to ask me, maybe?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JH- seriously! Nothing to do with handwriting, and frankly, if they want to know who I voted for , or if I cheated, faster to ask me, maybe?</p>
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		<title>By: JH</title>
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		<dc:creator>JH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This guy seems to have a huge amount of time to waste. 

Probably he gets paid by a government grant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This guy seems to have a huge amount of time to waste. </p>
<p>Probably he gets paid by a government grant.</p>
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		<title>By: Cathy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This seems applicable to the standardized test scandals that rocked Georgia last year.  The state now requires that students use special pencils with chemical signatures in their erasers, so that they can tell if teachers are later going back and revising the answers (the teachers don&#039;t get those pencils.  Or something like that.) I think scanned bubble analysis is a bit more practical method of determining &quot;cheating.&quot;  (In reality, a teacher confided in me that they did indeed help students erase their answers - because the lines are easy to mix up, and a little first grader could merrily mark answers down the row and not even realize they&#039;ve skipped an answer!)

The GRE solves this entirely with the computer adaptive test.  Just you and the program, and you get your score at the end of the test. No bubbles, pencils, erasers, or bubble analysis programs involved.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This seems applicable to the standardized test scandals that rocked Georgia last year.  The state now requires that students use special pencils with chemical signatures in their erasers, so that they can tell if teachers are later going back and revising the answers (the teachers don&#8217;t get those pencils.  Or something like that.) I think scanned bubble analysis is a bit more practical method of determining &#8220;cheating.&#8221;  (In reality, a teacher confided in me that they did indeed help students erase their answers &#8211; because the lines are easy to mix up, and a little first grader could merrily mark answers down the row and not even realize they&#8217;ve skipped an answer!)</p>
<p>The GRE solves this entirely with the computer adaptive test.  Just you and the program, and you get your score at the end of the test. No bubbles, pencils, erasers, or bubble analysis programs involved.</p>
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		<title>By: Natalie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really interesting article.  There is no anonymity anymore.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really interesting article.  There is no anonymity anymore.</p>
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