Educational Technology

September 15, 2011

With Cheating Only a Click Away, Professors Reduce the Incentive

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By Jie Jenny Zou, Chronicle of Higher Ed

As soon as the handheld gadgets called “clickers” hit the University of Colorado at Boulder, Douglas Duncan saw cheating. The astronomy instructor and director of the Fiske Planetarium was observing a colleague’s physics class in 2002, when the university introduced the electronic devices that students use to respond to in-class questions. He glanced at the first row and saw a student with four clickers spread out before him. It turned out that only one was his—the rest belonged to his sleeping roommates. The student was planning to help his absentee classmates by “clicking in” for the sleepers to mark them present. The physics professor had to tell the student that what he was doing was cheating.

http://chronicle.com/article/Cheating-Is-Now-Only-a-Click/128879/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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