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It looks like the more expensive the schools (Harvard, Standford, ie) the greater the emphasis is on the honor code. I wonder if there’s a bit of socioeconomic

It looks like the more expensive the schools (Harvard, Standford, ie) the greater the emphasis is on the honor code. I wonder if there’s a bit of socioeconomic bias at play here. By that I mean that it may be possible that state schools or those that are cheaper, view cheating as a grater threat, and thus justify the use of monitoring software. Whereas more affluent schools may presume their students are of a “different breed” so to speak and would not knowingly cheat. Sort of like Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson who said "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."

Bluestein 6y ago
> ... greater the emphasis is on the honor code You bring up an interesting point, mentioning "honor codes" ... > more affluent schools may presume their students are of a “different breed” so to speak and would not knowingly cheat. ... which might be the case.- I wonder to what degree the lack of use of proctoring software - cloaked in whatever premise - might become in itself a perverse value proposition, as in "if you go to a more expensive school, you will get away with more" ... Also, I'd be really really curious to look at any stats / data that might be available on the actual incidence of cheating on both types of schools ...