...a signed handdelivered note from God....

[dexfarkin]

For my academic friends, although I'd suggest anyone who's been through post-secondary education should watch this for the kind of lecture you would have wanted to be on the right end of.

Comments

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

Is there a 'right end' of this kind of lecture? I guess if you're one of the students who got a bad grade and get to retake the midterm...

The students who didn't cheat and got good grades have to re-take an exam they already worked for, the ones who did cheat are basically getting off without serious punishment (4 hour ethics course? I have to take a 4-credit one just for my potential major!) and basically everyone is kind of screwed here.

As a couple of random points - the university this happened at is the second in the US, at something like 50,000 students. The cheating seems to be that some students had access to the bank of exam questions provided to teachers by the publisher of the textbook, and they used that as a cheat sheet or a study guide. I'm not sure which. There's about 600 people who took that exam.

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

This strikes me as a stinkingly unfair shit, punishing the 2/3rds of people in his class who didn't cheat. If he's so bloody sure he can identify the 1/3 of cheaters, then why does he expect 2/3rds of the people in his class to suspend the normal operation of their lives? By what measure is that reasonable or fair?

[d-benway.livejournal.com]

1) He gets a C- for applied statistics.
2) It is unprofessional and reckless to use a test bank. It is doubly unprofessional if he used the test bank in order to take advantage of automated grading.

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

There is no right end to that. I would have walked out on this BS. That's a waste of time and money.