A Harvard professor gives students a take-home final exam, and asks them not to collaborate on the answers. Now word comes that half the students in the class may have collaborated on the answers. Shocking? As university officials probe the allegations, reaction is mixed:
“You think of Harvard as somewhere where people are academically honest and interested in their course work,” Michael Zimmet, a freshman from Aspen, Colo., told Fox News.
Tiffany Fonseca, a sophomore from Boston, told Fox News she didn’t know details of what happened, but it was easy to see how students could talk to each other about a take-home test.
“I’m kind of shocked, but I’m not,” she said.
The article also notes:
Teresa Fishman of the International Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University said it is not surprising that Harvard isn’t immune to possible cheating. She said 20 years of data shows that a quarter to a third of students across all levels of collegiate education admit cheating on tests.
In other words, whether it’s an Ivy League school or a community college, don’t give students take-home exams.
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