Timeline for Only one student answered an exam question - and I strongly suspect he cheated
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| Jan 31, 2021 at 23:46 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Mico: Actually, I like my last point the best because it's more spiritual, but the one before is very practical. It's a time-honored tradition in the 1st-semester programming course in my old department, in which I TAed a bunch of times. | |
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| Jan 31, 2021 at 22:22 | comment | added | Mico | +1 for "Next time, have the least experienced TA in the course, who had not seen the exam in advance, sit down and solve it - before administering the exam to the students." | |
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| Oct 22, 2017 at 1:07 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Acccumulation: If nobody found an answer, the question wasn't "hard". Also, no, the student is Samson - which was indeed cheating with his riddle; but the Philistines couldn't have known that without their own inappropriate conduct. | |
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| Oct 22, 2017 at 0:59 | comment | added | TOOGAM | +1 for the first bullet point. My question(s) for OP: OP says "I feel a big injustice will have been done to the rest of the honest students, if we let this one slide ..." Why? If the goal is to produce skilled graduates, how does one student getting credit for one question harm everyone else? Is this a two-question midterm? Will this one question even impact the entire course grade, much less whether the person graduates? This seems to be a lot of stock in just one question. Or is judgement of students' ability to answer questions your actual ultimate end goal? Why is this so important? | |
| Oct 22, 2017 at 0:54 | comment | added | TOOGAM | @Acccumulation : Yes. More broadly, Samson represents whomever is innocent and whom the wrongdoing was against. Which in this case I equate to the professor. | |
| Oct 22, 2017 at 0:31 | comment | added | Acccumulation | Giving hard questions isn't unethical, and it doesn't force people to cheat; anyone who cheats in that situation is making that decision on their own. Your analogy relies on the premise that the professor was unethical, which is the whole issue at hand. Analogies are for explaining claims, not for simply reiterating them. I'm not clear on what relevance you think the Samson story has. Is the professor Samson? | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 22:35 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Acccumulation: It's like an abused spouse shooting their abusing wife/husband. Sure, shooting people is wrong, but the abuser doesn't have a moral leg to stand on and complain about having been the victim of this kind of violent act. If an unsolvable exam drives someone to cheat it is not for the person who administered it to complain. Ok, that's not a perfectl analogy, but you catch my drift. Or - read the Samson Riddle story. | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 21:41 | comment | added | Acccumulation | "- or it was objectively practically-unsolvable, in which case I don't believe you even have a moral leg to stand on for accusing the student of misconduct. " I do not see your logic. | |
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| Oct 20, 2017 at 19:41 | history | answered | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |