Cheating in the Classroom

Excelsior's exams are taken at Pearson testing centers, and are as closely monitored as the NCLEX. The study guides are huge, and the test bank is humongous. Nobody gets the same test questions, essentially.

It's impossible to cheat in that program.

I was recently at my chemo therapy class where there is this test at the very end. I was surprised when some nurses (not students, RNS), from the university (OHSU) were boldly going over the answers and then arguing over one, too much!!! And the irony to this cheating business, I and others witnessed this. I was to put it mildly, shocked. I even told the instructors (from OHSU) about it while they were grading the tests and they didn't even flinch. Isn't that strange? Shouldn't a university have higher standards?

I taught for about 2 years. I had some cheaters in class and was not allowed by the administration to so much as ask them to leave my classroom (daddy had a lot of $$) but overall 90% of my students earned their grades. There is no way those horribly spelled papers with 2nd grade grammar errors were purchased!!

We have to check our papers with Turnitin.com. Our college pays for it. I think the instructors said to expect about 30% (whatever formula the web site uses to determine words not your own). i was extremely proud since my paper showed only 5% and every part of that was my references, which can be attributed to using APA format for them, so there was no real way to change it.

That cell phone texting thing is rampant, I had to email an instructor concerning it, though I didn't know who did it. For someone with ADD, it is very distracting to hear things like that in the background as well. They watched things much closer after that time.