cbeley

The use of the "word" "lawl" causes you to lose any and all credibility just so you know....

Everyone who has posted on this forum has pretty much covered my views (not every one of them). I'm someone who didn't even look in the back of the math books to check answerers for years (I still rarely do...unless I feel like I have no clue what I'm doing and want to make sure I'm on the right track). However, as for cheating on homework, I don't blame some people. Depending on the class, there is homework that is so repeative, so pointless, or where it would save you time and beniefet you more simply to know all the answerers and study from that. Our AP history class was an example of this. We had these big long worksheets where, you basicly just had to go through the whole book over and over again to find the answerers. Towards the second half, I started getting the answerers to these worksheets online and I feel that helped me considerably more than skimming through the book. Some people I really respect also did this, and they are all very intelligent people.

Still though, cheating has always bugged me, even on homework, and is something I really haven't done with the exception of ap history (which is a subject I hate....but by some miraculous miracle I managed a 3 on the ap history test).

If cheating on homework is an issue though, teachers should start doing what some teachers in our science department are doing. We are assigned homework, but it is not graded and if you cheat or don't do them, it won't hurt you or help you in any way shape or form. The next day you then have a "homework quiz" related to the homework problems. You are allowed to use your homework as notes for the quiz. The problema re differnt, so even if you cheated on the non-required homework, you would still have to understand it to make use of it. If all you need is the work, the homework quiz is forcing you to understand the stuff on your paper in order to do the quiz, so you are ultimately learning the material no matter what (unless you are cheating on the homework quizes themselves.... :S so, I guess it isn't the one-solution-fits-all sort of thing).


I really do think it stinks that people are getting away with cheating on projects and tests....lets say they do succeeded in the in. Now we have these cheaters who get everything they wanted while the people who legitmately worked hard and didn't cheat get the short end of the stick (I need to stop using these cliches :S). I don't know what we can do about it other than give each person their own carefully monitored box to work in, locked off from the outside world quite frankly. What's funny though, is the people are are really creative with the cheating could probally use that creativity to do something more productive.