Forty-three students have been suspected of academic dishonesty in Dartmouth’s “Sports, Ethics and Religion” course.
Attendance is fifteen percent of a student’s grade, and questions are sometimes answered by use of a student’s electronic “clicker.”
Apparently, some students had others sign in for their attendance, and gave them their clickers to answer class questions.
Business Insider reports on how course professor Randall Balmer detected the problem:
Several weeks ago, Balmer said, he began to suspect that students were skipping class and sending their clickers to class with friends to gain points for attendance. On Oct. 30, Balmer measured how many students were in class. After asking the class a question to answer on their clickers, he passed out a paper version of the same question — “In the world of sports, what happened on August 22, 1926” — to each student in the classroom.
“The TAs and I distributed these sheets to all the students in the class, being very careful not to distribute more than there were students in the class,” Balmer said. “It turns out that 43 students who said they were there were not there.”
There is yet no word if any disciplinary measures will be taken against the students.
h/t to Instapundit.
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