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Well crafted exams are such that having the questions ahead of time wouldn’t constitute cheating. It’s a way of forcing students to grapple with the material, extract major points, and understand how the pieces relate to one another. That’s not only exceedingly lazy but asking for trouble.Ĭrafting the exam isn’t something that ought be farmed out to one’s graduate students - much less the textbook publisher. While I finally relented to the incentives and started using multiple choice exams on large freshman survey courses, I would never have used them for upper level courses, much less a “capstone.” And, even when I used multiple choice exams, I never relied heavily on publisher-provided test banks.

On the other, he’s largely to blame for creating the environment that encouraged cheating to begin with.* On the one hand, it’s great that he caught the cheaters and went through the trouble to try to teach them a life lesson. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don’t identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course.”Īs a former professor, I’m of mixed minds. He said: “I don’t want to have to explain to your parents why you didn’t graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. In the lecture, Prof Quinn told the class he had enough evidence from statistical analysis and other investigatory techniques to identify most cheats, but instead of handing the list over to the university authorities for discipling, he proposed a deal.

Richard Quinn, a business professor at the University of Central Florida, got suspicious after a historically high grade distribution on the midterm for his capstone course and decided to scare his students: