I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to my office to solve the problem on the board. What would you do?

Edit: I gave them the Tuesday before spring break until the Thursday after. I didn’t want it to be right before or right after.

When I say normal I mean giving take home exams.

  • kandoh
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    3 months ago

    I’d praise them for answering the difficult question correctly and then ask if they’d mind giving a short presentation to the class on how they reached to solution… for tomorrow’s class.

    You’re highlighting the issue. Allowing them to save face. And now they’re forced to really understand it well enough to give a lesson on it to their classmates.