Preventing cheating

Roundtable: “Don’t make cheating easy!”

Organized By: Jason Busbin

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Let’s Hear From You

• Feedback

• Share What You’re Doing Currently

• Any Successes or Failures?

• Discussion: What do you think your students are currently doing as far as cheating?

No One Cheats, Right?

Check These Out

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/lang-MOOC-cheating-online-education/

http://online.cuw.edu/programs/open-courses/understanding-cheating-in-online-courses/

http://chronicle.com/article/Cheating-Goes-High-Tech/132093/

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-teaches-how-to-cheat-in-online-courses-with-eye-to-prevention

We’re Only Talking About Assessments, Right?

• Exams can be the easiest place to do so, BUT

• Papers/Essays

• Discussion Posts

• Labs/Assignments (MyMathLab, Aplia, etc)

• So what should you do about it?

Focus on Mastery, Not Performance… THEN Don’t Make It Easy

• Make the content inviting, collaborative, and give some freedoms to learn rather than “regurgitate”

• Give multiple attempts and average their attempts

• Use stories, examples, and specific items from class when creating questions

• Develop questions that require reading and interpretation, not just facts

>> You’re the instructors, share your ideas!

Those Common Mistakes I See• Giving WAY too much time on a quiz (rule is = your attempt

time x 3)

• Same questions for every student (randomize at least)

• Not using question sets (even better randomization)

• Content never changes over semesters (passing around past tests)

• Easily “Googleable” questions (change the wording slightly)

• Answer is in the question title (whoopsie!)

• Give answers away while test is still available via feedback (oh no!)

So What Do We Do?

• Review your course using a fake student

• Improve your course design

• Meet with me and/or your peers

• Form a cohort via the community?