Cheating in exams has been a constant of university student life, but after institutions largely abandoned pen and paper tests during the COVID-19 pandemic years, some NSW universities are reporting unprecedented attempts to rort the system.
Cheating in exams has been a constant of tertiary student life, but after institutions largely abandoned pen-and-paper tests during the COVID-19 pandemic years, some NSW universities are reporting unprecedented attempts to rort the system.
Universities are grappling with a record surge in examination cheating attributed to online assessments.Given the huge rise in detected cheating, it is unsurprising that since the University of Sydney returned to pen-and-paper exams, it recorded a 45 per cent drop in attempts to trick and beat the system. In the second semester, just 5.5 per cent of exams will be online and international students are required to be on campus. However, other tertiary institutions are sticking with online testing.
The current generation of undergraduates is what is known as “digital natives”, which is where the cultural and technological elements come in. Universities have a duty to help students understand the profound difference between the pursuit of knowledge through reason and rigorous intellectual investigation, and accessing so-called known unknowns via the web.
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