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>signing up for multiple, simultaneous sessions and picking best scoring sessions is pretty obviously cheating. Why? Taking the course multiple times sequentia
by drcube 14y ago
>signing up for multiple, simultaneous sessions and picking best scoring sessions is pretty obviously cheating.
Why? Taking the course multiple times sequentially is potentially okay, but taking it multiple times in parallel is "obviously cheating"? What's the difference, assuming it is always the same student taking the test?
Isn't practice something to be encouraged, and not punished?
- weaksauce 14y agoPractice is indeed something to be encouraged. Practicing to the test is no better than teaching to the test though. It's fine if there are no outside consequences like job offers, certificates with a score behind them etc. It is cheating though.
- pitt1980 14y agoIts cheating because its against the rules. The question is as the designer of the rules should you design that to be against the rules? Practicing to the test is a seperate question and a function of how useful you make the test Another interesting question is jobs, somewhere once (I don't have time to find a good link) there was talk that the business model behind Udacity was that it could sell more accurate info on students to employers than colleges can for instance they can track who finishes stuff early vs who waits until the last minute to turn something in