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Nine students at Yale University were given one-semester suspensions last week after they were found guilty of cheating on a take-home final exam in a physics course last spring...
Meschede first suspected that students had collaborated on the exams after he noticed that two of the exam books contained very similar answers, said Edward Hines, Yale's Director of Undergraduate Studies...
This longing may be affected by the type of question (it's a lot easier to cheat on a true-false test than an essay exam) and it is certainly affected by frustration level. If you can't for the life of you remember one out of 100 multiple choice questions, it seems pretty darn stupid to risk the other 99 by looking over someone's shoulder. If you have gone through all 100 and haven't gotten one so far, you might feel you have less to lose by trying to pick up a couple answers the slimy...
...system makes students realize that when they are cheating, they are doing more than playing a game against a proctor. Rather, it underlines a fact which is lost in the adversarial nature of the traditional scenario: that students are all in the same situation facing the exam...
Short of giving each test-taker his own room, there is no flawless scheme. Any exam monitoring method is problematic because it is based on a sour--but realistic--assessment of human nature. And that is one of the few things that is harder to change than Harvard's policies...