DeKayla McFadden

Module 201: Academic Dishonesty

One incident of technology-enhanced cheating that I have witnessed as a student was

during high school. Students from one class period would take a picture of the test and send it to

friends in another class period who have to take later during the day. I have also witnessed

students send the answer through text message to other students. The pre-existing conditions that

enabled the incident to happen was the availability of personal cell phones. I don’t think anything

could have been done before, during or after these incidents to prevent it from recurring. Cell

phone policy were in place, but of course students find a way around rules and procedures.

I also witness an incident of technology-enhanced cheating as a teacher. My students

were taking a social studies unit assessment online through Google Classroom, and students were

sharing answers. A team teacher had created the unit test through Google Forms and shared it

with the other Social Studies teachers on our grade level. I discovered after I caught students

sharing answers that the team teacher forgot to disable the option to show the correct answers

once the test is submitted. So, a student submitted her test, and then gave her friend the correct

answers. They were caught, a letter was sent home to parents about the incident, and the student

had to retake the test with the questions shuffled. To prevent incidents like this from happening

in the future, we teachers have made sure to disable the option for students to see the correct

answers after submitting any assessments.