Monday, November 8, 2010

Everybody Cheats (Even at Easy Schools)

From the Orlando Sentinel:

Close to 600 students in a senior-level business course at University of Central Florida must retake a mid-term exam after a professor was tipped off to cheating.

Students who admit to cheating will be given the chance to complete the course if they attend an ethics seminar, Professor Richard Quinn told students.

Those who don't step forward will be found out anyway, Quinn promised during an emotional lecture.

The incident, Quinn told students, has left him "physically ill, absolutely disgusted" and "completely disillusioned" after 20 years of teaching.

Quinn is teaching a senior level course with six hundred students and giving them multiple choice exams, and the thing that makes him ill, disgusted, and disillusioned is that, given the opportunity, students cheated?