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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...
...cheating accusations were controversial on the Yale campus because Meschede had allowed students to work together on all problem sets and even on a take-home midterm exam, said Bruce Spiza, a former government representative who has taken an active role in the cheating case...
...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...