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  Hi Everyone,

In my last TBL class evaluations by students, I had some disappointing 
responses to the item "Cheating is no problem in this class."  Only 8 
students agreed, 26 said they were unsure, and 37 said they disagreed.  
I was using clickers, so I got the responses right away and was able to 
ask each team to write suggestions for solving the cheating problem.  I 
got several suggestions that said "stop using clickers."

I had been using clickers on the iRATs  for the first time in this 
course. I can only guess at why using clickers might have made it easier 
to cheat.  I'm thinking that in the process of clicking in answers it 
may have been possible for students to send text messages via cell 
phones to other students without being noticed. Or maybe it was just 
easy to see what answers other students around them were clicking. 
Perhaps students in other countries would be more explicit about how the 
cheating was taking place, but here the students are only vague. Even 
those that are angry about the unfairness of cheating are unwilling to 
"rat out" their peers by telling me clearly how the cheating is taking 
place.

I'm not sure if I should just stop using the clickers for the iRATs or 
not. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Christine

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Christine Kuramoto, Assistant Professor: Medical English
Kyushu University, Department of Medical Education
Faculty of Medical Sciences
3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan
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