Get Your Students Hired
I taught a course before where students came to me and reported a few students cheating on an exam. I took it to the director and the dean and they both said that the information was hearsay. Basically they told me that if I didn't personally witness it, I could not enforce anything. I also couldn't punish the whole class by making them all retake the exam. In the end the director spoke with all of them as a class and they had to develop an honor code. Exams are now administered differently. I was curious to hear how other instructors have dealt with reported cheating in their experiences.
Hi Gail,
Even adult learners will be dishonest. Watch your students like a hawk when you administer tests. Try the various tactics mentioned in this course to curtail cheating.
Patricia Scales
I also had a cheating scandal in my class. Several students reported them right after the exam was given. The administrator and the director of the program told me to give them a 2nd exam, because nothing could be confirmed, only what the students heard, and "supposedly saw on their cell phones". Nonone would say they actually witnessed the cheating to the administrator, so we didn't have an actual witness because the students didn't want to be called out for tattle taling. The next week I gave the exam, and just made sure I was more careful the rest of the term, since it is my 1st year, I do expect to make mistakes. But I didn't expect cheating, thinking these are adults, and I expected better behavior