The Cheating Student
This forum had excellent ideas in regard to the cheating and angry student. These situations are often very delicate and must be handled with care. Documentation is an important factor in handling these types of situations.
Hi Melissa,
Catching cheating sudent is not the norm, however from time to time as the DOE I have to become involved in some cheating situations.
Patricia
Wow how many students are you catching at your school? I have had to move students in the middle of tests. I have never had it go as far as the Dean.
Great policy. This would serve as a real wake-up call for the students, I would think
Hi Lisa,
You must always have concrete evidence that a student has cheated. I've known students to hire an attorney for cheating accusations.
Patricia
I agree that detailed documentation is vital to addressing a cheating student. When it is documented there is no need to rely on memory for the specific facts. Also, it is very important to know the college's policy on cheating and to follow it.
I try to make the students aware of our school's policy on cheating. They all get it in their school handbook, but I find that very few of them have read it.
Knowing the policy and the consequences seems to have deterred cheating...very rarely do I have to deal with this.
Hi, Patricia.
I've only had two instances of cheating in my classroom. Both times I've let the students complete the test (as in one instance they were completing a typing test and both handed in the papers with the same errors/typos and it was helpful to have the evidence to prove they were cheating), gone to see the Director of Education and they've dealt with the final decision of what was to happen to the student. In one of these instances, I've actually been in a meeting with both the student and the director of education and got to see firsthand how they handled the situation.
Hi Tammy,
How do you typically handle cheating students? It is a very unpleasant situation to handle, but as educators we do come across cheaters from time to time.
Patricia
Thank you for your reply Cindy. Cheating is something I always hope not to encounter but on rare occasions I do and your reply gives me some insight as to how it is handle at different institutions.
Thank you and have a great weekend.
At the college I teach at, when an Instructor catches a student cheating, we take their test away and ask them to leave the class. We then report it to our Dean and the student is called in. This is placed in their file. If this is the first offense, they are warned, second offense - kicked out of school.
How do you handle a situation where students in your class notice the student cheating and tell you about it? Do you address it immediately during the class or do you let them complete the exam and then have a discussion with them and the head of your department or school?
We have a written warning for the first time, having the student write a paper on academic honesty and integrity.
Hi Vince,
What do you do for the first offense? Is it just a written warning, and the warning is placed in the student's file? At my institution the minimum for the first offense is an "F" in the course.
Patricia
Hi Susan,
We must continue to try everything possible to deter cheating. These are great ways mentioned to minimize cheating.
Patricia
We have a way of documenting cheating students in our academic integrity policy at the school. By the time that the student get to their 2nd warning it is a good deterrent. It let's them know that one more chance and they are expelled.
