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CHEATING

8/5/2013

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There has been a lot of mystification about cheating in college, most recently “How College Classes Encourage Cheating”  in the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/03/how-college-classes-encourage-cheating/3Q34x5ysYcplWNA3yO2eLK/story.html.

If colleges “market” themselves as providing “certification for careers,”” and if the model for leaning is “knowledge transfer” (i.e. memorization of facts), rather than personal and intellectual growth, isn’t frequent cheating an almost inevitable outcome?  

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David Sansone
8/5/2013 01:40:52 am

But according to the article, the rate of cheating hasn't changed substantially since 1963. Were colleges marketing themselves as providing certification for careers and was the model for learning “knowledge transfer” fifty years ago? (Of course, that wasn't, and isn't, the case at Hamilton College.)

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