2006-12-31 09:16:26 · 27 answers · asked by ime 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
It really depends on the age of the student. Fourth grade students certainly are different from high school seniors.
Younger ones should be reprimanded, a note sent home to the parents - and returned back to you with their signature. The child could be permitted to re-take the exam, but only receive half the value.
Older students - middle school, high school and college. No mercy. If they are caught at that age, they most likely have been doing it for some time. Zero points for them, no opportunity for a make-up. Sending a note home to the parents won't do much good at that point, they can easily figure out a way to forge a signature.
The one thing teachers now must be wary of is making a student feel "uncomfortable", so there can be absolutely, positively no humiliation about this, or the teacher is bound to be in hot water. Sad but true. Teachers don't have it easy.
Hooray for a teacher that cares about the education of their students!
2006-12-31 09:30:06 · answer #1 · answered by aivilo 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Students need to understand that cheating is serious. It is the academic equivalent of burglary and theft. If cheating is done at a college or a higher lever academic environment, a student will most likely be suspended and if severe enough, even expelled. Many academics have lost their entire careers because of cheating and plagiarizing. There's not really a reason to get creative here. The student deserves nothing more than a zero on the assignment, and perhaps a drop on the final grade in the class as well. If this is in high school, or this is an exam, failing the student is not too harsh a punishment. It's much better than letting the student find out later in life that in real life, away from school, cheating can have MUCH more dire consequences than just getting zero on an assignment or test.
2006-12-31 09:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by poseidon33 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This isn't a creative punishment for cheating students, but it did help our school with cheating. First of all, the cheating must be reported the person in charge of discipline in your school. Cheating at the school were I taught included homework, using someones essays from previous years, quizzes, tests, etc. The person cheating and the person who gave the answers were equally at fault. The first offense was a zero on the assignment. The second offense was failure for the term. The second offense did not have to be in the same class as the first one. If cheating happened a third time, failure of the class and 10 suspension was in order. I do not think we ever had a third time, although second time offenses happened often.
2007-01-01 11:56:44 · answer #3 · answered by vlteach 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think of it as reteaching, not punishing. Obviously they cheated because they didn't learn the material themselves. SOOOOOOOO make sure they learn it. As it is they should have failed the task they cheated on, which is punishment in itself. If you are giving them a second chance, that is wonderful but it should also come with some food for thought. THey will only do it if the grade means something to them. Make sure their parents know you are giving them a second chance and ask the parents to speak to them about academic honesty and what the consequences will be if they ever cheat again. They then have to write an essay about what they and their parents disussed and have them and their parents sign it.
2006-12-31 13:14:55 · answer #4 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about assigning an oral exposé by each student in the class. But don't tell the students anyone cheated... Ask the students to talk about what cheating means to them, how it affects others, how they would feel if they had been cheated, what if feels like for someone to get a zero because someone cheated off their copy and they got a zero too cause the teacher couldn't prove which one cheated. Trust me... the ones who cheat may learn a lesson.... and you can give the student who did cheat a zero, zip, zilch....nothing for the work. And I would put it in the student's record.
2006-12-31 10:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by The ReDesign Diva 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the cheaters themselves, for the main area, they settle for the theory or possibility of failing the the attempt/examination/project they cheated on. ok they have been given caught so the score there is nullified. What they don't comprehend is the belief and theory of the issue. with the aid of fact of this maximum universities have harsh punishment for cheaters. with the aid of fact the old asserting is going, as quickly as a cheater, consistently a cheater. what's to renounce the cheater from cheating lower back if the punishment isn't extreme? If the prospect isn't extreme adequate they'll proceed to take the prospect as distinctive the time, fantastically in super universities, it ought to be greater handy to cheat without being caught. Many cheaters are no longer doing properly in the class anyhow and distinctive fail to envision or bear in mind class coverage and syllabus that outlines punishment for cheating. of their own concepts they have already found out what the effect for cheating is and have ordinary that possibility. So whilst they do unquestionably get caught and the punishment isn't what they imagined, many declare unfairness and bias. If the punishment is what the student will settle for, it extremely is already a non punishment with the aid of fact the student has ordinary this possibility already. A heavier punishment is the only thank you to enable the student comprehend what the brevity of their movements are. So, from my journey as a TA at a 4 3 hundred and sixty 5 days college and on the community college point, maximum pupils seem to settle for failing that examination/homework/project that they've been given caught on. different varieties of punishment that are considered harsher (ie. failing path, expulsion, etc) are frequently met with ask your self, crying, sob thoughts, excuses etc. Then in the event that they choose for to combat it.. properly this is an entire new tale. What I do on the beginning up of my classes whilst i replaced into an area college professor is to pass over all the tutorial dishonesty information in the beginning up of the path. I define the ramifications of cheating/plagiarism etc. They sign a sort that they've examine the regulations/regulations and that i've got long previous over it with them. this manner, pupils can not declare lack of information or that I enforced a final minute coverage to handle the student whilst they are caught cheating. This additionally makes the dean, board of trustees etc have a greater handy time to side with the instructor whilst the student brings their mothers and fathers, criminal specialists etc into play to contest the punishment levied against them.
2016-10-06 06:35:58 · answer #6 · answered by cosco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps I was born in a different age, but I'm taking a stab at this question.
I went to a one room school in the country. It was 1st through 8th grades.
Our teacher, a very wise man named Mr. Schmalz, gave us the choice to cheat. We could at any time go to the teachers book and get the answers. We were only supposed to use it to check our answers and learn from our mistakes. Needless to say there were kids that would copy the answers and get good grades on their test. What eventually happened was a lecture from the teacher on honesty. Mr. Schmalz defined what cheating was, and how cheating didn't help us in the long run because we never learn what we need and we get further and further behind. He used it as a moral lesson for all of life and taught us that honesty with ourselves is far more important than tests and lessons and school because if we are willing to cheat then we are willing to short change ourselves in every area of our lives apart from school. From that point on the teacher used peer pressure to do most of the work for him. You only need a few students who frown on cheating and fairly soon you have a bunch of personally responsible students who set the rules and live out the values for class.
It was an excellent school and Mr. Schmalz was my favorite teacher. He taught me about life and all it's wonder.
2006-12-31 11:06:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
how about replacing what they were cheating on with something more hard?
like for example if they were cheating on a test, make one especially difficult, while the others get to take the original test? or if they were cheating on a homework, give them double the work that you assigned? If they cheated on a project, give them a harder project to do?
and if they are unwilling to do it, then give them a 0 and that should affect their grades. The harder version of the assignment can also be double the points, or is worth more than the usual assignments... that'll teach them to think twice if they think they are able to get away with cheating! lol
2006-12-31 09:27:36 · answer #8 · answered by Quixotic 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
How old? Whatever you chose, many parents will whine. They don't want their children to suffer consequences for bad behaviour. Have parents sign a note that makes them aware of the consequences of cheating. Cheaters get a 0 on the work that they cheated on. If they cheat by writing on desks, make them take tests without desks. Isolate cheaters for the rest of the year whenever they must take a test.
2006-12-31 09:19:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Have a general, but thorough, class discussion on cheating. Not to single the students out, but to reach them.
Ask the student(s) to demonstrate their (impressive) "knowledge" by explaining their answer(s), to you and their parents or the principal.
Suggest they volunteer to tutor and see what reaction you get.
2006-12-31 09:49:10 · answer #10 · answered by S. B. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋