Yahoo Answers is shutting down on 4 May 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Anonymous
Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceTeaching · 4 weeks ago

If you were a teacher, would you turn a blind eye to your student cheating on an exam?

In my class, we use our school laptops for everything, including to take tests and exams. As you can guess, this makes it super easy to cheat. Today, this girl was on Quizlet, looking for the answer, and accidentally clicked the speaker symbol which says the answer out loud. It was very loud and the teacher could hear but she (the teacher) didn’t say anything.

8 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    Depends. If I say no resources then no resources but if I don't specify... I don't really. care just don't make it super obvious. I would let that student slide if that happened bc that was probably nerve wracking for them hahaha but honestly resources are okay unless it's like a state test or a big exam/final. I feel especially this year i'm okay with it but as we take laptops away more and more and sort of go back to normal I think the rules will begin to apply again.

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    Yes, I would 100% turn a blind eye to cheating.

  • MS
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Just because the teacher didn't say anything at that time doesn't mean that it wasn't handled at a later time more privately.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Reacting right then would have been disruptive to the other students, and would also have provided an opportunity for them to cheat too, while the teacher's attention was distracted.

    I would have kept that student back for a private chat at the end of the exam.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    I didn't turn a blind eye to cheating but I never directly accused a student of cheating.  I used to write on the student's test that I found it interesting that the student and the other student had exactly the same answer and made exactly the same mistakes. Another technique I used was to Xerox the test of the cheater and when the tests were handed back I gave the student the Xeroxed copy and then made a big production that I returned the copy instead of the original.  In both cases I never had a student cheat again.  In subjects where laptops and other devices were allowed to be used by the student I gave no benefits of the doubt regarding their answers. 

    Teachers don't turn a blind eye to cheating as they have their individual ways of dealing with it. 

  • 4 weeks ago

    The teacher possibly didn't hear it even though it was loud enough. I know people who if they are concentrating on something can't tune everything out (I can't). But more likely the teacher would address it later as it is better not to disrupt the entire class if a quiz is going on and better to have the discussion in private or the teacher simply doesn't care anymore because students and their parents have beaten down teachers when they address cheating. 

  • 4 weeks ago

    the teacher can, of course, mark the student's response wrong ... or even issue a zero on the whole exam for cheating

  • 4 weeks ago

    Not a chance in hell would I ever let cheating slide. She would be so busted. 

Still have questions? Get answers by asking now.