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In around the year 2000 I had an essay due that day I had forgotten, and about ten minutes of computer lab time before home room in the morning. I wrote an intr
by donatj 3y ago
In around the year 2000 I had an essay due that day I had forgotten, and about ten minutes of computer lab time before home room in the morning. I wrote an introduction and conclusion; then filled the remainder with copy pasted chunks of the introduction and conclusion. The thought being at least I’d get a laugh. If anyone had read the thing it would have been clear it was nonsense.
I received an 80% with no notes or markup.
I have been left wondering for the last 25 years how much student work is actually even reviewed.
I work in EdTech and every time we add a feature that requires manual teacher review of student work you will see that some teachers are VERY diligent while others never touch it.
- filipezf 3y agoThere was this numerical calculus class at Uni where the teacher forbid us to use the calculator. So I just programmed the integral on it, got the partial steps, and just wrote random numbers to fill the the substeps. Got full grade :D The other case everybody got to pass the class, but after vacation we found the stack of exams completely untouched under a desk. The teacher had a side business to run...
- jtriangle 3y agoI know a guy who copy/pasted a wikipedia article, in line citations and all, and submitted it for a sociology class and got an A, no notes, nothing.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoHe “only cheated himself.” :-D
- wolverine876 3y agoThe point is to develop skills and knowledge, so I would agree. Do you disagree?
- mixmastamyk 3y agoI agree, but we used to cringe at this saying when young, so funny to bring it back now.