Wow! Good for Professor Quinn. I don't understand how people put so much energy into cheating. They can easily put that E into studying and get good results
i actually saw this story on the news...he figured out the class was cheating by performing a statistical test. when he saw that the averages and how well most of the class was doing, he figured they were cheating (horray for statistics...lol). i think that it was about half of the class who got the answers to the exam before the test. either way, he was pretty lenient because he said that if those who cheated confessed, he would require them to take an ethics course (its better than getting kicked out of school). but what really got me was when the news channel interviewed one of the students about the story and he said the school was "over-reacting because everyone does it, it's normal" hahhaha...guilty...
I'm still confused about how the statistics pointed out who cheated and who didn't. If it's comparing one test score to the last one, some people may have studied harder for the last test. If that's the case, they were automatically implicated in cheating? I guess I'd have to really know the entire breakdown of the class to understand how Dr. Quinn was so sure. Midterms, Hw, assignments, etc perhaps.
The stat test hinted at cheating, but i think it was some people in the class who informed the proffessor about who cheated. Thats another thing, I'm sure we all have been taking a test and seen someone cheat, but we don't say anything because it's a classmate and we don't want to be branded as a snitch.
Wow! Good for Professor Quinn. I don't understand how people put so much energy into cheating. They can easily put that E into studying and get good results
ReplyDeletei actually saw this story on the news...he figured out the class was cheating by performing a statistical test. when he saw that the averages and how well most of the class was doing, he figured they were cheating (horray for statistics...lol). i think that it was about half of the class who got the answers to the exam before the test. either way, he was pretty lenient because he said that if those who cheated confessed, he would require them to take an ethics course (its better than getting kicked out of school). but what really got me was when the news channel interviewed one of the students about the story and he said the school was "over-reacting because everyone does it, it's normal" hahhaha...guilty...
ReplyDeleteI'm still confused about how the statistics pointed out who cheated and who didn't. If it's comparing one test score to the last one, some people may have studied harder for the last test. If that's the case, they were automatically implicated in cheating? I guess I'd have to really know the entire breakdown of the class to understand how Dr. Quinn was so sure. Midterms, Hw, assignments, etc perhaps.
ReplyDeleteThe stat test hinted at cheating, but i think it was some people in the class who informed the proffessor about who cheated. Thats another thing, I'm sure we all have been taking a test and seen someone cheat, but we don't say anything because it's a classmate and we don't want to be branded as a snitch.
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