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Saturday, April 23, 2005
In Defense of Cheating Donald A. Norman, Ubiquity
In a recent issue of Ubiquity, Evan Golub examined the implications for cheating of allowing students to use computers during examinations (Golub, E. (2005). PCs in the classroom & open book exams.I was disturbed by Golub's article because the emphasis was on cheating by students and possible counteractive measures. Never did he ask the more fundamental questions: What is the purpose of an examination; Why do students cheat? Instead, he proposed that faculty become police enforcers, trying to weed out dishonest behavior. I would prefer to turn faculty into educators and mentors, guiding students to use all the resources at their disposal to solve important problems.
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