Timeline for How to deal with inactive students in a testing session?
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| Jan 31, 2022 at 16:51 | answer | added | Lodinn | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 4:33 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | Have you tried standing behind the students so that they can't tell whether or not you are observing them? | |
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| Nov 29, 2016 at 18:26 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | user64845 | Why would a student even attend if they will fail anyways? Or why not just put your name on it and hand it in? Whatever the reason for that stupid behaviour is, in my opinion I would just let them sit/sleep or whatever they want to do. With that kind of work ethics they hopefully won't be at that school for long. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 15:33 | comment | added | Raghu Parthasarathy | I encourage my students, on exams, to often pause and think, and not feel compelled to constantly be writing. If they're doing this, I assume they'll be staring off into space, or closing their eyes. I've done this myself as a student, and I did very well on exams! I really don't see why this should make you (the instructor) uncomfortable -- what's the point of an exam that doesn't require thought? If the issue is that the students are turning in blank exams, that's their problem, not yours -- you're not their parent. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 13:28 | answer | added | user9646 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 22:49 | answer | added | O. R. Mapper | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 6:10 | comment | added | NZKshatriya | Personally, I would say to boot them out, in a polite manner of course. As they are likely distracting to at least one person in the room. | |
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| Nov 28, 2016 at 2:24 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 24 | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 1:46 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2016 at 0:34 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: -4 | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 0:16 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 23:08 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @MassimoOrtolano: Yes, these are exams. I would think it unlikely that these particular students are copying questions. Practice tests in the exact same format are already publicly distributed. No materials can be taken away with the students. These are generally students who cannot remember any terminology or symbols from day to day. | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 23:07 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/803012504544628736 | ||
| Nov 27, 2016 at 23:05 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @svavil: Because it complicates watching for cheating. Their head is up, looking elsewhere in the room the whole time. It's added stress for me to monitor them constantly. | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | svavil | OK, they are clueless how to solve the questions and stare at the problems for an hour, waiting for a spark of understanding to ignite in their minds. Why should they leave? | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | For "testing session" do you mean an exam? In my experience (in my country), in some courses where past exam papers were not made available by the professors (it happened especially in the past), some students would go to the exam anyway, even unprepared, just to take note of the questions and exercises given. So they would stare at the wall for most of the time. Sometimes students would take turns at the exams to compile a list of questions. | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 19:55 | history | asked | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |