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Or, try this: give the students all the possible exam questions in advance, so that they can study them, and then have your exam be a randomized selection of those questions. https://twitter.com/emayfarris/status/1289006796259110913
Also possible: don’t do exams at all. The only class I still give exams in is the really big one, where doing lots of individualized assessment is just too much workload.
Students are going to cheat. A subset of them are always going to cheat. And I had to decide whether I wanted to spend my time teaching the students, or being a cop.
Students who want to learn the material will try to learn the material. Those are the ones I’m trying to teach.
Students who want to learn the material will try to learn the material. Those are the ones I’m trying to teach.
Students do sometimes get frustrated with me because I don’t spend a lot of time trying to prevent cheating.
However, since I have yet to teach a class where I needed to curve the grades, I don’t see how anybody is getting hurt by this.
However, since I have yet to teach a class where I needed to curve the grades, I don’t see how anybody is getting hurt by this.
In my fantasy universe, we don’t do grades at all. You either pass, or you don’t. Every class. That would eliminate at least some incidents of cheating.
