Roundtable: “Don’t make cheating easy!”
Organized By: Jason Busbin
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• Feedback
• Share What You’re Doing Currently
• Any Successes or Failures?
• Discussion: What do you think your students are currently doing as far as cheating?
No One Cheats, Right?
Check These Out
http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/lang-MOOC-cheating-online-education/
http://online.cuw.edu/programs/open-courses/understanding-cheating-in-online-courses/
http://chronicle.com/article/Cheating-Goes-High-Tech/132093/
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-teaches-how-to-cheat-in-online-courses-with-eye-to-prevention
We’re Only Talking About Assessments, Right?
• Exams can be the easiest place to do so, BUT
• Papers/Essays
• Discussion Posts
• Labs/Assignments (MyMathLab, Aplia, etc)
• So what should you do about it?
Focus on Mastery, Not Performance… THEN Don’t Make It Easy
• Make the content inviting, collaborative, and give some freedoms to learn rather than “regurgitate”
• Give multiple attempts and average their attempts
• Use stories, examples, and specific items from class when creating questions
• Develop questions that require reading and interpretation, not just facts
>> You’re the instructors, share your ideas!
Those Common Mistakes I See• Giving WAY too much time on a quiz (rule is = your attempt
time x 3)
• Same questions for every student (randomize at least)
• Not using question sets (even better randomization)
• Content never changes over semesters (passing around past tests)
• Easily “Googleable” questions (change the wording slightly)
• Answer is in the question title (whoopsie!)
• Give answers away while test is still available via feedback (oh no!)
So What Do We Do?
• Review your course using a fake student
• Improve your course design
• Meet with me and/or your peers
• Form a cohort via the community?
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