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| Cribs and Cheating | Learning Methods
During the online course students get a lot of different tasks and tests, and with the teaching and evaluation methods progressing the ways of cheating are being developed. Of course there are diligent students who would like to study honestly, get good marks, but there are even more of those, who would like to get the same good marks but not in a honest form. These students use cheating models and cribs.
Assignments and Tasks
Assignments are the best way to measure student’s abilities and work proficiency, because it’s not possible to copy, rewrite or substantially cheat during this kind of work. Many institutions use websites like www.Turnitin.com to test for replicated material. On these web sites all the materials are put in great database which may help a teacher to check whether the students created the assignment himself or cheated and used plagiarism.
The Procedure of Testing
In online courses there are some definite methods for prevention the cheating. There are many holes in the defenses however and in future institutions will be obliged to do some work about making the process of prevention cheating more legally justified, caused in some cases its very hard to prove that the students has really used a crib, especially when its made afterwards.
In distance learning it’s very difficult to check whether the tests are correctly and fairly been answered. Firstly the student usually gets to pick the invigilator who is trusted with overseeing the exam.
There is a chance that this trusted person will administer the test according to protocol, but its may be so that this person will let the student to use some forbidden material during the tests passion and wont prevent cheating, which may be profitable for both of them in the end.
Sitting at the exam computer it’s not difficult to use another to search for right answers, consult others via the internet, ask for some answers and problems solve. Class passing is better from the point of safety. It does not eliminate it though, there will always be cribs made wherever it’s possible.
Punishment and Expulsion
Though online cheating is a hard to prove thing, there is still not only ways of cutting it, but several methods of punishing caught red handed. The procedure of punishment starts from the moment the professor noticed the fact of cheating, deprived the students of test passing opportunity and sent him to the Study Board. Almost all educational establishments use the method of dismissing students provided they have been caught in cheating. So the best way of passing particular test is just know the material!
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