Actions Instructors Can Take to Help Prevent Cheating in Exams
- Blue Books, Exams, and
Papers: (suggestions based on reports by student about other students
who bring blue books to the exams in which they have already written
answers to the questions)
- Collect all extra blue
books at the end of the exam
- Place a mark in the
back of all blue books distributed to students taking the exam
- Have several versions
of the exam containing the same questions but in different orders and
require a different blue book for each question
- Require students to
write on the cover of each blue book, exam sheet, or paper "I
certify this is entirely my own work which I have undertaken in this
exam" and have them sign their names
- In the Classroom
- If possible have
students sit in every other seat/desk, leaving an empty seat between each
student
- Inform students prior
to exam week that they will not be allowed to leave the room until they
have completed the exam, except in the case of an actual emergency.
Students who leave the room will be assumed to have completed the exam
and will not be allowed to reenter. (Exceptions made for students with
documented disabilities - students should notify faculty prior to the
exam if an exception is required).
- What to Allow and What Not
to Allow to be Brought to the Exam
- Inform students prior
to exam week that no technical devices (cell phones, MP3 players,
Blackberries, etc) will be allowed during the exam. (Exceptions made for
students with documented disabilities who require an authorized aid or device
- students should notify faculty prior to the exam if an exception is
required)
- Inform students prior
to exam week that they should arrive to the exam with nothing other than
a pen/pencil and that if they bring/wear a coat and/or bag those items
must be left at the front of the room until the student has completed the
exam. (Exceptions made for students with documented disabilities who
require an authorized aid or device - students should notify faculty
prior to the exam if an exception is required)
