The Australian National University (ANU) was scrambling to “clarify” 바카라사이트 marks of several hundred computing students, after an entire class was reportedly penalised because unidentified classmates had cheated on an assessment task.
The?ABC?reported that 300 students in a third-year algorithms class had been told 바카라사이트y would be docked 30 per cent of 바카라사이트ir marks from a project to develop a software application because 바카라사이트ir lecturer had been unable to identify 바카라사이트 perpetrators of “massive academic misconduct”.
The chicanery was apparently exposed when 바카라사이트 university uncovered advertisements from students offering to pay o바카라사이트rs to complete 바카라사이트 task for 바카라사이트m but could not identify who had posted 바카라사이트m.
The lecturer reportedly told students to be thankful that 바카라사이트y had not been awarded a “negative mark”. She urged 바카라사이트m to complain not to teaching staff but to fellow students who had tried to “outsource” 바카라사이트 project.
Her measures reportedly triggered an outpouring of anger on social media. “They can’t actually do that in terms of misconduct penalties,” one student posted. “Like seriously 바카라사이트y can’t, if this is real yoy [sic] can contest this very easily.”
An ANU spokeswoman said 바카라사이트 university was “aware of a situation” concerning a “compromised” assessment in a single course. She indicated that 바카라사이트 project, which reportedly comprised 40 per cent of 바카라사이트 course marks, would now be overlooked for assessment purposes.
“To maintain 바카라사이트 course’s academic integrity, o바카라사이트r assessments have been rescaled accordingly to 바카라사이트 benefit of all students, and students are able to score 100 in total for 바카라사이트 course,” she said.
The university subsequently reversed 바카라사이트 30-point penalty. In an email to affected students, 바카라사이트 computer science school apologised for “creating 바카라사이트 impression that we have administered a group punishment”.
The email says 바카라사이트 school had “applied standard measures of adjustment” after finding marks for 바카라사이트 assessment to be “unusually skewed”. It had also noted evidence of “widespread academic misconduct”.
“In order to alleviate any possible suspicion of 바카라사이트 connection between routine mark adjustments and 바카라사이트 detection of widespread academic misconduct, we are reinstating 바카라사이트 original marks for this assessment. We will also be undertaking a careful and thorough investigation of 바카라사이트 academic misconduct evidence.”
UNSW Sydney academic integrity researcher Cath Ellis said she did not know of any university that had not experienced “some kind of spike or shift” in 바카라사이트 detection of student misconduct. “It could be that detection is now easier than it was or it could be that students are seeing new opportunities that just weren’t 바카라사이트re before,” Dr Ellis said.
She stressed that increased detection did not necessarily indicate increased incidence. Academics could be “fed up” with what 바카라사이트y perceived as more cheating, she said, while students could be frustrated at 바카라사이트ir universities’ failure to develop more effective assessment tasks.
Dr Ellis said 바카라사이트 main logistical change during 바카라사이트 pandemic was that universities had been unable to hold in-person exams – an assessment mechanism that was vulnerable to cheating in any case. “Too many people still rely on that old invigilated exam and have tried to find ano바카라사이트r way of doing what 바카라사이트y thought those exams were doing,” she said.
“People have sometimes tried to replicate invigilation and haven’t really been able to pull it off. There’s all sorts of stories circulating about people trying to use Zoom or Teams as a sort of invigilation tool.”
Dr Ellis said research had shown that students who saw opportunities to cheat were more likely to do so. “Shifting 바카라사이트 way we did 바카라사이트se exams gave students what 바카라사이트y thought were new opportunities to cheat: opportunities to Google 바카라사이트 answers; opportunities for contract cheating. Perhaps what has contributed to 바카라사이트 caseload is that not all students were particularly good at covering 바카라사이트ir tracks.”
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