Cheating??
I just wanted to get a hand count or your ideas/philosophy on the subject of cheating on tests. What do you believe to be a fair and equal punishment/consequence for all students who you catch cheating in any and all circumstances? Do you believe there should be different consequences for different types of cheating? If so, what do you think they should be based upon? I am just looking for your opinion and your experiences with students cheating :)
posted by Missy Jonson @ 12:51 PM
4 Comments:
I think this will probably come up on March 2nd. If it doesn't you might consider bringing it up. Tony has an interesting perspective on this. (I do, too, of course, but that goes without saying!).
I wanted to first show you that we are out here reading! As we discussed on Friday cheating is a hard issue and there definitely needs to be major consequences.
However, I personally don't think that those consequences should be punitive on the grade in the class. (Although many would disagree with me). Again we have to get back to what we want grades to reflect.
Hopefully (I am an optimist) the cheating can ultimatly be a learning/growing experience for the student. And hopefully they learn there lessons on that here before they get thrown out of college or something worse :)
I agree with Barb that cheating should not affect the grade to such a dramatic level. A zero on a test is sometimes not possible to recover your grade. I think that the punishment should come from parents and administration. The last kid that I caught cheating on a test, I told him to talk to his parents about what he had done and have them email me with possible punishment options. His parents were appreciative that it was handled and they said that they had a long discussion with him about the implications of cheating. I think that this had more of an effect then it would have coming from me or an administrator. I think that you do have to handle each case differently depending on the situation but it is okay to try new ways of handling the problem of cheating.
At the beginning of the semester, I had my kids revisit my class expectations according to what they thought were appropriate consequences for things like tardies, unexcused absences, and cheating. They felt like giving them a "0" if they merely have wandering eyes, for example, was not a fair consequence. Instead, they thought the best consequence was to have the student come in and re-do the test/ quiz in your office. Not only would this be embarrassing, it would also prove to you whether the student truly knew the information or not. I thought this was an interesting perspective. Particularly if we consider the philosophy that content grades and non-academic factors should be separated like Barb addressed. If we give a student a "0" for cheating, that goes into a content grade and, furthermore, almost gets the student "off the hook". By having them come in, we show that the content matters and they are punished further for their action by having to use their spare time to come make up the assignment.
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