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I have been an invigilator for several exams for large classes. I am not formally affiliated with the classes.
One thing I routinely notice is that, despite warnings, there will always be some students who will very quickly and brazenly flip through the entire exam (booklet) and look at the questions before the exam starts. Some will do this very quickly to get a sense of the type of questions (no more than 10 seconds).
What should be the appropriate response to this type of behaviour? The dilemma for me is, I don't want to expel a student for a less than 10 second glance at an exam, but I have been very annoyed by this type of brazen behaviour (even when I was an undergrad), which clearly constitutes cheating.
Can someone please provide advice as to what to do for this minor type of cheating behaviour?
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I have been an invigilator for several exams for large classes. I am not formally affiliated with the classes.
One thing I routinely notice is that, despite warnings, there will always be some students who will very quickly and brazenly flip through the entire exam (booklet) and look at the questions before the exam starts. Some will do this very quickly to get a sense of the type of questions (no more than 10 seconds).
What should be the appropriate response to this type of behaviour? The dilemma for me is, I don't want to expel a student for a less than 10 second glance at an exam, but I have been very annoyed by this type of brazen behaviour (even when I was an undergrad), which clearly constitutes cheating.
Can someone please provide advice as to what to do for this minor type of cheating behaviour?
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I have been an invigilator for several exams for large classes. I am not formally affiliated with the classes.
One thing I routinely notice is that, despite warnings, there will always be some students who will very quickly and brazenly flip through the entire exam (booklet) and look at the questions before the exam starts. Some will do this very quickly to get a sense of the type of questions (no more than 10 seconds).
What should be the appropriate response to this type of behaviour? The dilemma for me is, I don't want to expel a student for a less than 10 second glance at an exam, but I have been very annoyed by this type of brazen behaviour (even when I was an undergrad), which clearly constitutes cheating.
Can someone please provide advice as to what to do for this minor type of cheating behaviour?
undergraduate exams cheating policy
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I have been an invigilator for several exams for large classes. I am not formally affiliated with the classes.
One thing I routinely notice is that, despite warnings, there will always be some students who will very quickly and brazenly flip through the entire exam (booklet) and look at the questions before the exam starts. Some will do this very quickly to get a sense of the type of questions (no more than 10 seconds).
What should be the appropriate response to this type of behaviour? The dilemma for me is, I don't want to expel a student for a less than 10 second glance at an exam, but I have been very annoyed by this type of brazen behaviour (even when I was an undergrad), which clearly constitutes cheating.
Can someone please provide advice as to what to do for this minor type of cheating behaviour?
undergraduate exams cheating policy
undergraduate exams cheating policy
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I don't know what an "invigilator" is exactly, but I presume that you merely watch the students to make sure they don't cheat, distribute exams and paper, and take the filled exams at the end, more or less.
As such it isn't your role to decide on any kind of punishment for cheating. There are probably procedures in place to report cheating. Do it. What happens next isn't up to you. If there are no formal procedures, take the name of the student and inform whoever is in charge (the professor in charge of the course for example).
Unless you have explicitly been told that it is okay, I would recommend being extra careful about expelling students. Students are afforded due process. If it is ever found out that peeking at the exam isn't something worth getting a zero on the exam or if the student is not found guilty, then having expelled them is something that will be terribly hard to correct. In my university the rule is to expel students only if their behavior causes trouble for the other students or in cases of person substitution (someone is taking the exam in the student's place). And even then, it's not the role of the proctor to decide this -- you have to get approval from the university president's office.
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Penalize those that do it with the consequences for cheating - once you actually DO something then the rest will tend to stop...
At the moment while you let it go or "condone it" through your inaction then they will continue...
Expulsion is not the only punishment, a later exam with a “replacement fee†or an exam in the following semester are all valid sanctions used in different institutions.
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Simply give them a score penalty.
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3 Answers
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up vote
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I don't know what an "invigilator" is exactly, but I presume that you merely watch the students to make sure they don't cheat, distribute exams and paper, and take the filled exams at the end, more or less.
As such it isn't your role to decide on any kind of punishment for cheating. There are probably procedures in place to report cheating. Do it. What happens next isn't up to you. If there are no formal procedures, take the name of the student and inform whoever is in charge (the professor in charge of the course for example).
Unless you have explicitly been told that it is okay, I would recommend being extra careful about expelling students. Students are afforded due process. If it is ever found out that peeking at the exam isn't something worth getting a zero on the exam or if the student is not found guilty, then having expelled them is something that will be terribly hard to correct. In my university the rule is to expel students only if their behavior causes trouble for the other students or in cases of person substitution (someone is taking the exam in the student's place). And even then, it's not the role of the proctor to decide this -- you have to get approval from the university president's office.
answered 5 hours ago
Najib Idrissi
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I don't know what an "invigilator" is exactly, but I presume that you merely watch the students to make sure they don't cheat, distribute exams and paper, and take the filled exams at the end, more or less.
As such it isn't your role to decide on any kind of punishment for cheating. There are probably procedures in place to report cheating. Do it. What happens next isn't up to you. If there are no formal procedures, take the name of the student and inform whoever is in charge (the professor in charge of the course for example).
Unless you have explicitly been told that it is okay, I would recommend being extra careful about expelling students. Students are afforded due process. If it is ever found out that peeking at the exam isn't something worth getting a zero on the exam or if the student is not found guilty, then having expelled them is something that will be terribly hard to correct. In my university the rule is to expel students only if their behavior causes trouble for the other students or in cases of person substitution (someone is taking the exam in the student's place). And even then, it's not the role of the proctor to decide this -- you have to get approval from the university president's office.
answered 5 hours ago
Najib Idrissi
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up vote
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I don't know what an "invigilator" is exactly, but I presume that you merely watch the students to make sure they don't cheat, distribute exams and paper, and take the filled exams at the end, more or less.
As such it isn't your role to decide on any kind of punishment for cheating. There are probably procedures in place to report cheating. Do it. What happens next isn't up to you. If there are no formal procedures, take the name of the student and inform whoever is in charge (the professor in charge of the course for example).
Unless you have explicitly been told that it is okay, I would recommend being extra careful about expelling students. Students are afforded due process. If it is ever found out that peeking at the exam isn't something worth getting a zero on the exam or if the student is not found guilty, then having expelled them is something that will be terribly hard to correct. In my university the rule is to expel students only if their behavior causes trouble for the other students or in cases of person substitution (someone is taking the exam in the student's place). And even then, it's not the role of the proctor to decide this -- you have to get approval from the university president's office.
answered 5 hours ago
Najib Idrissi
9,37623457
I don't know what an "invigilator" is exactly, but I presume that you merely watch the students to make sure they don't cheat, distribute exams and paper, and take the filled exams at the end, more or less.
As such it isn't your role to decide on any kind of punishment for cheating. There are probably procedures in place to report cheating. Do it. What happens next isn't up to you. If there are no formal procedures, take the name of the student and inform whoever is in charge (the professor in charge of the course for example).
Unless you have explicitly been told that it is okay, I would recommend being extra careful about expelling students. Students are afforded due process. If it is ever found out that peeking at the exam isn't something worth getting a zero on the exam or if the student is not found guilty, then having expelled them is something that will be terribly hard to correct. In my university the rule is to expel students only if their behavior causes trouble for the other students or in cases of person substitution (someone is taking the exam in the student's place). And even then, it's not the role of the proctor to decide this -- you have to get approval from the university president's office.
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answered 5 hours ago
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Penalize those that do it with the consequences for cheating - once you actually DO something then the rest will tend to stop...
At the moment while you let it go or "condone it" through your inaction then they will continue...
Expulsion is not the only punishment, a later exam with a “replacement fee†or an exam in the following semester are all valid sanctions used in different institutions.
answered 5 hours ago
Solar Mike
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up vote
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Penalize those that do it with the consequences for cheating - once you actually DO something then the rest will tend to stop...
At the moment while you let it go or "condone it" through your inaction then they will continue...
Expulsion is not the only punishment, a later exam with a “replacement fee†or an exam in the following semester are all valid sanctions used in different institutions.
answered 5 hours ago
Solar Mike
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up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
Penalize those that do it with the consequences for cheating - once you actually DO something then the rest will tend to stop...
At the moment while you let it go or "condone it" through your inaction then they will continue...
Expulsion is not the only punishment, a later exam with a “replacement fee†or an exam in the following semester are all valid sanctions used in different institutions.
answered 5 hours ago
Solar Mike
9,11432039
Penalize those that do it with the consequences for cheating - once you actually DO something then the rest will tend to stop...
At the moment while you let it go or "condone it" through your inaction then they will continue...
Expulsion is not the only punishment, a later exam with a “replacement fee†or an exam in the following semester are all valid sanctions used in different institutions.
answered 5 hours ago
Solar Mike
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answered 5 hours ago
Solar Mike
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Simply give them a score penalty.
answered 5 hours ago
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Simply give them a score penalty.
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Simply give them a score penalty.
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Simply give them a score penalty.
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