giving take-home exams and telling kids not to talk about it, or you let them carry smart phones into tests, it’s an invitation to cheating,” he said. The case that Harvard revealed in late August involved a take-home final exam in an undergraduate course with 279 students. The university has not yet held hearings on the charges, which may take months to resolve. Officials said similarities in test papers suggested that nearly half the class had broken the rules against plagiarism and working together;…
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