Cheating | Feature (Software) Code of Honor When USC's students
began bringing computers to class, its law school turned to
technology and rigid process to maintain academic integrity in
the testing room. - By Dian Schaffhauser Cheating is in the news
again--this time at Harvard, where about 125 students are being
investigated for collaborating on an open book/open Internet
exam for a government class that took place in May. According to
the university, exam protocol issued to the students explicitly
stated that, "Students may not discuss the exam with others..."
Yet, the instructor for that course, according to reporting by
student newspaper The Harvard Crimson, found amazing
similarities among many of the tests, such as use of the same
arcane examples and--in two students' exams--the same typo: a
space in the number 22,500. To students who exist in a world of
free content, Wikipedia, and peer-to-peer file sharing, the
concept of academic integrity may seem a quaint notion: Isn't
everything ultimately source