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> For example, in this course I ran short multiple choice quizzes each week. Students could take the quiz as many times as they wanted during the week. The quiz

> For example, in this course I ran short multiple choice quizzes each week. Students could take the quiz as many times as they wanted during the week. The quiz questions changed each time (pulled randomly from a pool), and students always got their most recent quiz grade. The quizzes were low stakes. I also told students that taking the quizzes would help them study for the midterms, which would contain questions from the quizzes. So… your students were… studying? This isn’t cheating. There’s more in the article that clearly frames these quizzes as learning reinforcement and permissive in how the students take them. The students were doing what was intended: studying the material and preparing for the exam that matters. Good for them. Shame it got missed in the zealous pursuit of a pervasive cheating racket.

aoeusnth1 4y ago
And yet low-stakes cheating on these quizzes escalated to blatant cheating on the midterms, which the cheaters bombed once that was thwarted. Classifying this as “studying” is far too generous given the objective evidence of performance.
Sirened 4y ago
Yeah I caught that too. Overall very good article, but I did find it bizarre that they were made that students were collecting past quizzes into reference material. This seems like one of the few legitimate uses of these sorts of class groups
vehementi 4y ago
Correct, that is not the cheating OP is talking about. Take another read.
- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  I’d prefer not to. The author framed students embracing their own educational structure as cheating, and set out to sleuth them out as cheaters for doing what the program was designed for them to do. That’s dishonest and I don’t trust anything else the article says.
  - vehementi 4y ago
    Okay, don't, but then you'll continue believing incorrect things like > The author framed students embracing their own educational structure as cheating
  - aoeusnth1 4y ago
    That's a ridiculous characterization of the student's behavior, but you'd know that if you had read the article you're criticizing.
    - eyelidlessness 4y ago
      The other commenter said it was correct before saying it was incorrect, but whatever

aoeusnth1 4y ago

And yet low-stakes cheating on these quizzes escalated to blatant cheating on the midterms, which the cheaters bombed once that was thwarted. Classifying this as “studying” is far too generous given the objective evidence of performance.

Sirened 4y ago

Yeah I caught that too. Overall very good article, but I did find it bizarre that they were made that students were collecting past quizzes into reference material. This seems like one of the few legitimate uses of these sorts of class groups

vehementi 4y ago

Correct, that is not the cheating OP is talking about. Take another read.

eyelidlessness 4y ago
I’d prefer not to. The author framed students embracing their own educational structure as cheating, and set out to sleuth them out as cheaters for doing what the program was designed for them to do. That’s dishonest and I don’t trust anything else the article says.
- vehementi 4y ago
  Okay, don't, but then you'll continue believing incorrect things like > The author framed students embracing their own educational structure as cheating
- aoeusnth1 4y ago
  That's a ridiculous characterization of the student's behavior, but you'd know that if you had read the article you're criticizing.
  - eyelidlessness 4y ago
    The other commenter said it was correct before saying it was incorrect, but whatever