Professor Richard Quinn was so disgusted by evidence that many of his students had cheated in their midterm exam that he gave them a lecture that he hoped would teach them a life-long lesson.
After the talk, more than 200 students have admitted to cheating.
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That's great and all, but if instructors weren't taking the easy way out themselves, by using questions they didn't even write pulled from a question bank, this isn't a problem. You don't want anyone to cheat? Make your tests an essay. Heck, give people the questions ahead of time and pick one of multiple essay topics. But that requires a lot more time to grade, so we don't do that. It's all a trade off, and clearly the cheaters bear the blame. But lazy test writing enables it.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Robert.
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