How Would You Handle Students Cheating? (lemmy.ml)

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I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to my office to solve the problem on the board. What would you do?

Edit: I gave them the Tuesday before spring break until the Thursday after. I didn't want it to be right before or right after.

When I say normal I mean giving take home exams.

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[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

If they cheat and find an answer online, they've proved they can use resources available to them to find the answer and recreate it. Honestly I don't see a practical difference between that and knowing the answer in a closed book setting.

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