I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to my office to solve the problem on the board. What would you do?

Edit: I gave them the Tuesday before spring break until the Thursday after. I didn't want it to be right before or right after.

When I say normal I mean giving take home exams.

  • D61 [any]
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    9 months ago

    One of the questions was particulary difficult.

    If its the only question that the kids "cheated" on, probably just make that question weigh less compared to the rest of the questions. Bonus question or something.

    I mean, unless the point of the test is to weed out kids who shouldn't be taking the course...