Question

showing honesty during online examination. write a paragraph on it​

Answer 1

Answer:

I would be willing to bet I'm not the only online instructor who has received the following question from traditional classroom teachers: "How can you be sure students are not cheating?" There seems to be a common sentiment that online courses open up the door for students to become more mischievous and dishonest than they ever would dare in a more traditional classroom setting, but why is that the case? Do we naturally assume if we cannot see students as they complete an exam, then they are sharing answers or having someone else take their exam? Do we automatically worry that students will work together and help each other out when they should be working independently? Do we fear that if we are not policing what students are doing then we can never be truly confident that the exams actually measure their understanding of the concepts and ideas we hope they will master in our courses? Honestly, any time you have students work on an assignment or assessment outside of the classroom, you are never going to be 100 percent confident that the work they turn in is their own.

But let's think about the more traditional teaching environment� How often do we ask our students to complete assignments outside of class, which we expect them to work on independently? ? Do we automatically worry that students will work together and help each other out when they should be working independently? Do we fear that if we are not policing what students are doing then we can never be truly confident that the exams actually measure their understanding of the concepts and ideas we hope they will master in our courses? Honestly, any time you have students work on an assignment or assessment outside of the classroom, you are never going to be 100 percent confident that the work they turn in is their own.

But let's think about the more traditional teaching environment� How often do we ask our students to complete assignments outside of class, which we expect them to work on independently? Do we assume these students will "cheat" on these assignments? When I am asked if I worry about cheating, I often want to ask the traditional classroom teacher if he or she is worried that his or her students will cheat on in-class exams. Can he or she know for sure—even when students are in direct eyesight as they work through an exam—that nothing improper is happening? And what about the instructor who gives take-home exams? How are these any different from the kinds of exams that students in an online course might take?