So I caught a student cheating on Monday. The students do group lab reports and one group handed in their report and left. The second group went to hand in their report and asked where the pile was. Realizing report #1 was MIA - I went looking for it and found a student had snatched it, taken it back to her desk, and was copying the answers from it.
I grabbed it, shook my head, and put it back at the front. The student later came back with "well, they said it was OK," "I didn't think it was cheating, but I can see how YOU think it was," and "I wasn't going to hand in my paper, but we were going to hand in someone else's paper in their group." This is all from a 45 -yr old non-trad student. On what planet was that not cheating?? I could have and should have given their whole group a zero.
Today in lab we had course evals (students rate me). Student A was moping around, sighing that she didn't understand anything, and her group was moving too fast. She was muttering under her breath about how none it made any sense and they never get any explanations. Apparently - at least one of my evals will be GREAT!!
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