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| May 31, 2021 at 8:23 | comment | added | darij grinberg | It's not just universities any more that Chegg is giving trouble now. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 22:37 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | @StefanKohl, yes this is a problem for a large course. Also in the US where I teach there isn't much of a tradition for oral exams | |
| May 30, 2021 at 20:44 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | Maybe cheating is notably harder in a face-to-face oral examination by camera, where one sees the student, and they don't have time to send the question to some cheating site and to wait for the answer? (Of course for courses with many students, the workload for giving such exam may be prohibitively high.) | |
| May 30, 2021 at 20:42 | comment | added | diracdeltafunk | Well, there certainly still are some (indeed many!) students who have great academic merit and fully master the material in their courses. If even 5% of students achieve good understanding, this will easily be enough to staff chegg and the like. A single chegg post requires only one answer, but can help hundreds of students cheat. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 19:12 | comment | added | alephzero | In the long term, sites like Chegg will be self-correcting, like any other predator-prey situation. If there are no students who actually understand what they have been taught, there will be nobody to provide the answers for the cheats :) | |
| May 30, 2021 at 16:23 | comment | added | Donu Arapura | When I taught a fully online class last fall, I noticed that some of my students were posting my exam questions to Chegg etc. as well. It made a bad year feel even worse. I don't know of any good solution. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 15:23 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | @YemonChoi, what bothers me is not so much looking something up on Wikipedia. Even MSE usually requires the asker to engage with the answerer and understand something and requires typing the question of you hope to he an answer. But Chegg and it's compatriots that give immediate answers to obvious exam questions (sometimes it the photo the student sends clearly states the time remaining and that they cannot return to the question) and the immediate sharing of answers between students on group chats really irks me. I honestly felt bad for students who did badly honestly. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 15:04 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Note that the last point is a defensible approach to getting things done in life; I've recently had to hack together a shell script to automate some Moodle->human conversion for exam marking workflow, and needless to say I cut+pasted+tweaked various selected things found on online forums and stackexchanges. So how can we convince our UG students, rather than coerce them, that they should be taking a different approach to the work that we assign? | |
| May 30, 2021 at 15:01 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | This resonates with me, for reasons I am not sure I am "allowed" to mention <waves at my university HR and at the whole Student Satisfaction Apparatus in UKHE> but to some extent I wonder if the pandemic merely crystallized a longer-term trend: increasingly students believe that the point of assessment is "pass to the next level of the game" and that the definition of understanding is "knowing how to look up online how to do it" (these are not specific to mathematics education) | |
| May 30, 2021 at 14:53 | history | edited | Benjamin Steinberg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 30, 2021 at 14:43 | history | answered | Benjamin Steinberg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S May 30, 2021 at 14:43 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Benjamin Steinberg |