PASSWORDMANAGEMENT
Assessments, Exams, and Academic Integrity
This guide will cover considerations, techniques, and resources for assessing students and maintaining academic integrity in an online environment or any learning activities that occur outside of structured in-person classrooms.
Some things to consider before you begin
- By changing the stakes of the exam, could you reduce the temptations for students to cheat? If some students are tempted to cheat due to feelings of desperation, would they be less likely to cheat if the stakes of the exam were lower? If the ultimate goal of the class is to achieve your learning outcomes, could that be accomplished better by giving them dynamic opportunities to learn the concepts?
- If you are relying on textbook resources such as premade test banks and publisher websites those resources are likely readily available to students online. While the pre-constructed nature of these tools save the instructor time when it comes to assessing students, they also make them easily duplicated and shared across the internet.
- As we prepare students for a career beyond college, we should ask ourselves if accessing knowledge without the access to resources mirrors what they will be doing in their career? With the availability of information of knowledge via the internet, apps etc, is it more useful to give them assessments that make them apply knowledge to a unique problem.