Posted by Eric SEI on March 09, 2008 at 20:10:15 from (74.215.179.163):
In Reply to: CHEATING IN SCHOOL posted by Nat on March 08, 2008 at 11:42:35:
I'm not going to argue that cheating is not a problem, but I will argue that much of cheating on tests is a result of laziness on the part of the teacher or the administration.
When I was in Drivers Ed, they used the same fill in the dot answer sheet the entire course. They graded by placing a template over the sheet and marking wrong answers with a red pencil. They only had like 4 templates, so after 1 week we could recognize the patterns. After all, we were just using additional parts of the same sheet each day. Surely they could see the problem with this. But it was easy for them.
Now anybody who has taken math at Purdue should remember how they do finals. We had finals in the Hall of Music (seats 6,000) and were scattered out. Nobody in the row in front of you, nobody in the row behind you, nobody to your left, nobody to your right. You certainly didn't copy off anyone. A high school teacher could at least spread the desks farther apart if the auditorium or cafeteria couldn't be used.
Later when I was at Iowa State I had an Econ prof who handed out extra credit questions. Each was the same problem but he used a computer to generate versions with the variables changed. To get the right answer all the calculations had to be done, copying guaranteed a wrong answer. All schools have computers that can do this now, if the teachers don't take advantage of them that is their fault.
Using a computer a teacher could even rearrange the order of the questions on each persons version of a rest. History tests obviously can't use the different variable method. If the person to your right has question 5 first, and you are starting on question 17, copying would be difficult.
Cheating on homework is hard to stop, but they will pay for it on tests. And most students will quickly see that their only choice is to prepare for the tests. It does take a little extra effort for the administration and teachers, but it can be done .
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