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> students have developed the habit of breaking into groups of four when given online multiple-choice quizzes. Each guesses a different answer (A, B, C, or D) t
by jacooper 4y ago
> students have developed the habit of breaking into groups of four when given online multiple-choice quizzes. Each guesses a different answer (A, B, C, or D) to each question. Because students get two chances to take the quiz—why that is, no one seems to know—they all have the right answer by the time they take the quiz for a second time. And wind up with a perfect score.
I mean they are practically asking for it at this point.
24 hours and two tries? Who's not going to cheat?
> At Tufts, sources told me that crib sheets have gone digital, with students uploading course material to their Notes app and using their Apple watches to access information while taking tests.
Are they even trying anymore? How on earth is an apple watch allowed anywhere near an exam?
> That’s because lower level courses, where cheating is more rampant, tend to be taught by nontenured faculty with little job security—the kind of people who fear getting negative student evaluations.
Looks like when nobody is buying into the BS, they treat it as BS?
The students just want the degree, and the teachers just want the job, win-win.
- nyc_data_geek1 4y agoIt seems to me that we shouldn't expect underpaid, nontenured staff to care if the students make a mockery of the system, because they feel that they are being made a mockery of by the system already. I don't expect a fast food worker to have an emotional investment in their labor. Poverty wages don't beget or befit that kind of effort.