Reducing student cheating
Assign student to different seating if possible, if not use odd and even test with same questions but different answer seclection. Essay form of questions are the best choice due to the fact that students cannot copy from each other. Also having students answer short essay questions make them bring back part of the lecture and apply it to real situations.
Students who cheat are only hurting themselves, and give the story about now is a pratice , but who knows the next time will be at there job and their pay will be depend on the results of their effort.
Once you have discovered a cheating student, ask him to stay after class and get him to addmit of his cheating, confront him one on one.Explain the loss of trust and make him feel guilty of cheating. Usually this will make student know you are aware and he will not repeat this action again in your class. Make student aware that you are required to follow the school policy and this will volate the Acdemic Intergry policy.
I have also experienced proximity control to be a wonderful aid in reducing/eliminating student cheating. Sometimes the mere presence of an authoritative figure being much closer than normal yields enough pressure to prevent cheating to occur. Eye contact also serves as a fair warning... sometimes when students cheat they look for the instructor a lot just to see if the instructor "can see" the cheating happen. Therefore, if an instructor DOES make eye contact with a suspected cheater, then this cheater might think that they "got caught" and will immediately focus back to honesty being the best policy, even if only for a moment.
