Let Your Students Cheat on Exams

Publication Date

1-16-2020

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

PRIMUS

Volume

31

Issue

6

DOI

10.1080/10511970.2019.1705450

First Page

685

Last Page

697

Abstract

What if your students could access any resource during a test? How would they react? How would you react? This paper presents some results from a trial of allowing students access to notes, calculators, and any device connected to the internet, which occurred during a midterm in a second-year ordinary differential equations university course. This was generally well-received by the students and feedback informed a subsequent use of this approach in a mathematical reasoning course. I argue that this open-resource exam protocol affords the opportunity for less routine and possibly more conceptual engagement with mathematics.

Keywords

Technology, undergraduate mathematics, differential equations education, summative assessment, digital resources

Department

Mathematics and Statistics

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