Is this cheating?

:smack:

If the administration knows about it and hasn’t bitchslapped the professor, then I weep for your school.

Last resort: write/publish an opinion column in the school newspaper, explaining exactly what happened and why you feel you’re being treated unfairly. I know the test was small, but at this point it’s the principle that matters: you followed all the rules and still got treated badly, and the professor deserves to have the weight of public opinion brought to bear against him.

Ditto

Another email from the administration just came. This one concludes with:

Huzzah! I love me some justice for the good guys. Thanks for reporting back with that! :smiley:

Ah, so someone in the administration is on the Dope.

Professor here.

  1. Publishers offer test banks to instructors.

  2. I give open book, open-note multiple choice exams. However, I write my own questions and I’m pretty good at creating tests, even multiple choice, that require synthesis of the material. When students fail one of these (and a few always do), it’s really clear that they didn’t put much effort into it.

  3. Because I’m interested in whether they can retrieve the correct answer, not whether they’ve memorized.

  4. I use other kinds of assessment for other purposes.

  5. All of the other answers are correct.