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For another point of view, as long as we are slinging ancedotes . . . My wife teaches a large, but graduate level, seminar. Every semester, a small number of
by tom_b 16y ago
For another point of view, as long as we are slinging ancedotes . . .
My wife teaches a large, but graduate level, seminar. Every semester, a small number of students are caught blatantly plagiarizing sources in papers. These cases are required to be handed over to a student-staffed and managed honor court.
In every case that has been handed over to them, the student-staffed and managed honor court has failed the student.
- lutorm 16y agoAnother anecdote: my wife's teaching a class at MIT now, and they have problems with homeworks being basically copied from the MIT OpenCourseWare web site, which apparently contains the solution to pretty much any problem given in any of the previous years' classes. I'm actually genuinely troubled by what to think of this unfortunate intersection between unprecedented access to information and requiring students to do work beyond Googling...
- T-hawk 16y agoI also went to a college with a student-adjudicated honor system. It really does work, because the students actually have the better incentive for applying discipline. They're the ones that will be competing with the scoundrels for class ranking and job hiring. But what's the incentive for the administration to cost itself a tuition payer? Of course, it is possible for the honor court to go too far and be prejudiced against peer students out of sheer competitiveness, but it would seem that happens rarely enough to make it the lesser of evils if a factor at all.