That’s a shame. BU is known for its fine academics. (rolling eyes)
Sounds like the BU Chem prof has standards.
Now, let’s talk about their lib arts group and Occasional Cortex.
I've used various delivery apps like Blackboard in online and classroom situations for years.
Students cheat all the time and do so with embarrassing transparency.
It happens in the classroom as well. I watched a student in the back row copying answers off another student during a mid-term exam. He was copying from some dumb bunny who was taking my course for the second time having flunked it the semester before.
I remember thinking, "Don't cheat off her her you fool. Cheat off this guy in the front row. He's going to ace this class."
I finished correcting an online final exam this morning for 20 students. How do I know they cheated?
About 5-6 of them made the same spelling mistake in answering a question with "Issac Newton." Pathetic.
When working over the internet with my students I adopted an entirely different test system. First, no questions, everything required extensive analysis and engineering details (the class was in Systems Engineering). Second, the students had to answer everything in a open setting and I had students criticize other’s answers. (These were for homework, not grade).
Finally, each test was on the honor system but with 24 yours to respond. I believe the students could use the internet for help here but I tried to use problems of my own design, that they could not look up. I thought it worked well, but was more work for me than a typical class with midterms from the textbook company. I guess the clever students could get answers from these too, but they were thousands of questions and they were generated for each test using a random process. Testing always has this problem, and when each student has the same problem, one student can send the rest of the class the answers. So showing the work becomes essential as well.
That’s a shame. BU is known for its fine academics. (rolling eyes)
Speaking of BU, AOC graduated with a degree in economics — and recently said how much she admired the economist “Milton Keynes”.
Surely BU doesn’t have standards that low. If she didn’t cheat, that means their standards are nonexistent. Either way the taxpayer loses, having stupid people like her running her district.
Students never would cheat when taking tests online.
Just like Democrats never would cheat when voting online.
Sadly as students embrace Leftist values, cheating and lying comes naturally. Personal integrity, honesty and logical thinking are scorned as bourgeois anachronisms. To be politically correct, you must be delusional.
Hiring managers are rightly skeptical about the value of degrees even from prestigious universities. A far better measurement for a prospective employee is an intelligence test and a psychological exam that gauges honesty.
The problem is for online tests the professors use a standard test generated by the textbook company. All you have to do is enter the question into a search engine and the question with the right answer will appear. A good option is to use a program that locks out the copy and paste feature and does not allow for other tabs to be open. You could also require a webcam to be present to ensure the test taker is not using another device.
I’m aware of at least one professor who put one of his difficult Final Exam questions on Clegg and proceeded to input the calculations and the answer incorrectly into Clegg.
20 of the 300 (or so) students used Clegg and copied the incorrect answer into their exam.
These 20 students failed the course and were referred to the Student Justice Board.
Surprise, surprise.
How many kids are getting perfect scores these days while online schools are the vogue?
Of course they cheated, at least some of them. Chegg and Coursehero are two to the most prominent pay to play (cheat) sites. Go to the sites and you’ll fined institutions from Pig Butt U. to Harvard there with assignment and test answers for most everything. I’ve caught enough of my students cheating over the years that I just have to look for the word or code patterns to recognize a cheat. They fail the course when I catch them whether it is week 1 or the final week. That said, this is not new and not confined to online courses. Students in face to face courses do the same thing. Back in the early 70s, before the internet, you could find all kinds of ads for test taker services (also known as goats) to take an exam in a large class where the professor could not know everyone personally to frats and sororities that maintained test and assignment books. The current time period makes no difference because chances are you’ve already hired someone who has done this, more than once.
I am professor at large university. My students are cheating and so are everyone else’s. The provost told us there is not enough staff to handle all the complaints. I used an online proctoring service which worked well but even they are now closed.
In real life if you don’t know the answer you typically go online to research it. So they are just doing what they would be doing a couple years from now,
I intentionally gave the wrong answers on a Humanities 201 test because I knew the guy next to me was copying my answers.
I told the Prof., who let me retake the test privately.
I got the A; dumbass copier got the F.
He never copied my test again!
A FRiend’s daughter, who is an elementary grade school teacher told me FRiday that many of her kid’s parents are doing their kid’s homework!
She said it is VERY easy to spot!