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Have we taken security too far? 

What’s

the difference between a medical student and a convict? The answer: A convict

doesn’t pay $50,000 a year for the privilege of being fingerprinted and patted

down. I am referring, of course, to the increasingly stringent security

measures that have come to characterize modern educational testing. As student

evaluation techniques have migrated from face-to-face assessment to

computer-based exams administered in dedicated testing centers, evaluators have

become less and less likely to know examinees, leading to heightened

precautions around exam security.

I

recently interviewed a group of fourth-year medical students who had just taken

Step 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Clinical Knowledge Examination at

test-administration centers. Each of the students had paid $560 for the

privilege, and had devoted nine hours to the single-day exam, which consists of

eight sections of 40 to 45 questions each. Over the day, they received a total

break time of 45 minutes. Students must pass the exam to obtain a medical

license, and scoring well is an important factor in gaining admission to

competitive medical specialties. So anxiety tends to run high.

This

inevitable anxiety is compounded by Checkpoint Charlie-esque security measures.

IDs are checked. Each student wears a unique number on his or her shoulder

throughout the day. Students are fingerprinted each time they enter and exit

the testing room (up to 16 times). They are patted down and asked to roll up

their pants legs and pull their pockets inside-out. If they wear a jacket or

sweater into the exam room, they cannot take it off. They are warned that they

will be under constant camera surveillance.

One

of the students, a former U.S. marine, said he had found the entire atmosphere

of the exam eerily familiar. He had served in Iraq, helping to preside over the

return of inhabitants to Fallujah after the city’s recapture by U.S. forces.

“It was weird,” he said. “They were using many of the exact same procedures and

equipment we used in Fallujah. It took so long for them to verify identities

that you almost didn’t dare leave the room, for fear you couldn’t get back in

time. I finally had to show one of the examiners how to do it properly.” Of

course, these techniques are not merely for medical students. Aspiring

accountants and architects, students sitting for the GRE, and prospective

employees of Silicon Valley companies are all subjected to these medieval

measures.

Some

might say that a high-security approach to testing students is not only

necessary but laudable. In the case of medical testing, the health of the

nation is a vital resource, and we cannot afford to place it in the hands of

physicians who might have succeeded through academic dishonesty. Who would want

a loved one to be cared for by a physician who had cheated on the

medical-licensing exam? As public policy, exam hawks argue, we should demand

the very highest security in all such testing.

Question:

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