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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Students are copying from the internet. And it’s because of how we teach -Dipti Kulkarni

Students are copying from the internet. And it’s because of how we teach -Dipti Kulkarni

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published Published on Apr 8, 2021   modified Modified on Apr 8, 2021

-The Indian Express

By leaving little time for students to grasp and reflect on what we teach them, we’re lowering their engagement with what they’re learning and reducing their confidence to articulate complex ideas

Since the onset of COVID-19 last year, it’s not only the virus that has perfected the art of copying. Students across the globe are acing it. With an expansive, permanently available repository at their fingertips, copying is a breeze. In online exams, students have the choice of copying from each other, from the internet and from other resource material. Consequently, setting a question paper in these times has become more challenging than answering one.

For most subjects, evaluation is a fundamentally problematic task anyway. When confronted with an answer, the evaluator has to convert the worth of the answer into a number. Even with a rubric at hand this is never straightforward. And it would be best to not talk about the reliability of these scores. Different evaluators at different times and the same evaluator at a different time would rarely give the exact same marks to an answer. It is such a fragile scoring system on which entire careers are built. The pandemic has compounded the difficulty of evaluation.

Do I give more marks to an answer that is original but incomplete or even off-the-mark or to an answer that’s more comprehensive but is copied?

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The Indian Express, 8 April, 2021, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/students-copying-exams-coronavirus-pandemic-teaching-education-7263395/


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