瑪麗·艾倫·弗利
就讀於斯坦福大學
作弊。我是一名研究生助教，主要由醫學預科生上的化學課，作弊現象很猖獗。孩子們為了得到 98 分而不是 96 分而作弊——在改變答案後，給我們帶來了他們的評分試卷，並說他們的評分是錯誤的。我們必須保留複印件，並抓到很多。助教監考考試隻是為了回答問題——因為榮譽準則，我們不被允許“監考”——而且我總是看到學生作弊。我會告訴他們我可以看到他們在商議，他們知道他們不應該這樣做，他們會嘲笑我。我們甚至不被學校允許舉報它們，因為這將構成監督。
我猜這個問題在預科專業人士中最為嚴重——那些計劃去醫學院、法學院或商學院的人——因為他們擔心能否進入。至少，我希望隻有一小部分學生在騙。
The cheating. I was a grad-student TA for a chemistry class taken mainly by pre-med students, and the cheating was rampant. Kids cheated to get a 98 instead of a 96 — bringing us their graded exams, after having altered their answers, and saying they’d been graded wrong. We had to keep photocopies of a random sample, and caught a lot of them. And TAs sat in on exams only to answer qusetions — because of the honor code, we weren’t allowed to ‘proctor’ — and I saw students cheating all the time. I’d tell them I could see them conferring and they knew they shouldn’t do that, and they’d laugh at me. We weren’t even allowed to report them, because that would constitute proctoring.
I’m guessing that the problem was worst among the pre-professionals — those planning to go to med school, law school, or biz school — because they were worried about getting in. AT least, I hope only a small portion of the student body cheated.
