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It's a decent exercise in ethics to point out what could be unethical about it. If you only consider the goal (catching cheaters) it's easy to convince yourself

It's a decent exercise in ethics to point out what could be unethical about it. If you only consider the goal (catching cheaters) it's easy to convince yourself it can't possibly be unethical, but you shouldn't disregard the methods. - Publishing wrong answers to a previous exam could confuse students who were simply looking up old exams to study. - Identifying 'cheaters' as anyone who had a less than 1% chance of arriving at the answers randomly. This is wrong for 2 reasons, one is that they aren't answering randomly the other is that even assuming they are answering randomly you'd falsely accuse at least 1 student of wrongdoing on average. - Not sure if a teacher has a moral duty to make good tests, but if they do then reusing multiple choice questions on a complex topic like ethics isn't ideal.

WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
> - Publishing wrong answers to a previous exam could confuse students who were simply looking up old exams to study. In any decent institution which does exams, an example exam sheet with questions similar to what you’re going to get, or even one of actual old exams, is usually published for just this purpose. Sniffing around the sites the express (or commonly agreed upon) purpose of which is enablement of cheating, on the other hand, reveals the intent. So, nope.
- contravariant 3y ago
  The claim that Quizlet is solely designed for the purposes of cheating is unfounded in my opinion. It doesn't look like it at first glance anyway. I'm not even sure what a website designed to enable cheating would look like to be honest, but that's because I have no expectation that I'd be able to access the internet during an exam, and because I consider any study of related materials fair game before the exam begins. You'd have to get an answer sheet of the actual exam up front before I start to consider it iffy.

WesolyKubeczek 3y ago

> - Publishing wrong answers to a previous exam could confuse students who were simply looking up old exams to study. In any decent institution which does exams, an example exam sheet with questions similar to what you’re going to get, or even one of actual old exams, is usually published for just this purpose. Sniffing around the sites the express (or commonly agreed upon) purpose of which is enablement of cheating, on the other hand, reveals the intent. So, nope.

contravariant 3y ago
The claim that Quizlet is solely designed for the purposes of cheating is unfounded in my opinion. It doesn't look like it at first glance anyway. I'm not even sure what a website designed to enable cheating would look like to be honest, but that's because I have no expectation that I'd be able to access the internet during an exam, and because I consider any study of related materials fair game before the exam begins. You'd have to get an answer sheet of the actual exam up front before I start to consider it iffy.