Scandal Rocks Harvard: Should Ivy League Offer Take-Home Exams?
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2012/09/12 19:00:00
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Harvard offered take-home tests to its students. Yes, the supposed pinnacle of college education allows its students to take tests home. And the Ivy League institution allowed taking home final exams nonetheless. It should not come as a surprise that many of the students cheated on the final exams and got caught. The improper testing procedures have now caused a cheating scandal for the 376-year-old institution.
Harvard began the investigation into 125 students including many on Harvard's basketball team. Harvard basketball co-captain Kyle Casey plans to withdraw amid the allegation. The school also implicated Brandyn Curry, the other co-captain of the basketball team.
Harvard President Drew Faust sounded dismayed that the students would cheat on the tests. Faust responded in August when the allegations arose, "'These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends."
Nearly half of the 280 students taking the final exam for Introduction to Congress may have cheated on the test. Maybe they learned something about cheating from their studies -- that politicians cheat and America generally accepts it.
MSN.FOXSPORTS.COM reports:
Harvard began the investigation into 125 students including many on Harvard's basketball team. Harvard basketball co-captain Kyle Casey plans to withdraw amid the allegation. The school also implicated Brandyn Curry, the other co-captain of the basketball team.
Harvard President Drew Faust sounded dismayed that the students would cheat on the tests. Faust responded in August when the allegations arose, "'These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends."
Nearly half of the 280 students taking the final exam for Introduction to Congress may have cheated on the test. Maybe they learned something about cheating from their studies -- that politicians cheat and America generally accepts it.
MSN.FOXSPORTS.COM reports:
Harvard basketball co-captain Kyle Casey plans to withdraw from school amid a cheating scandal that also may involve other athletes, according to several reports.
Read More: http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/h...
Top Opinion
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Resp 2012/09/13 05:08:53
I had some in college.
They were MUCH HARDER than in-class tests, allowing open book/open notes.
You took them over the internet and were timed so you couldn't just spend hours looking up what you hadn't already learned.
Thoroughly corrupt rich and powerful people rigging the game to get ahead.
seems that perhaps they DID Pay attention to what CONGRESS does actually do
(Corruption/Cheating/Criminal Activity endemic ... in an organized cabal type of way)
NOW I have this to say ...
In a course such as this ..
what happened to final exams in the classroom time .. (essays, of course!) .. monitored -- timed .. just make sure that there's also no texting too ..
I do believe there are some courses where Take Home Tests could be used ..
(for example .. some basic computer programming courses .. like Intro to HTML)
But for the most part .. I've not ever experienced any exam that is "Take Home" at all ..
(nor one where one could assess the internet at any point in time either)
What's up with this .. at a supposedly pinnacle of 'education'?
Just have to ask .. since I've worked hard all my life ..
paid my own way through my degree programs ..
couldn't even THINK of affording a school like this ..
yet RIDDLED with Cheating and scandals?
(ORGANIZED cheating at that?)
(and to think I did a thesis while on Deployment in the Military too .. sheesh!)
at work, you're expected to research and gather the information you need to complete the assignment, not work off memorization by rote.
the idea is to learn when where and how to gather the information you need to make an informed thoughtful decision - critical thinking