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Online cheating charges upend Dartmouth Medical School
The university accused 17 students of cheating on remote exams, raising questions about data mining and sowing mistrust on campus. Students at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine protesting outside the dean’s office after administrators accused 17 of their classmates of cheating during remote exams. Kelly Burgess/The New York Times May 9, 2021
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HANOVER, N.H. Sirey Zhang, a first-year student at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, was on spring break in March when he received an email from administrators accusing him of cheating.
Dartmouth had reviewed Zhang’s online activity on Canvas, its learning management system, during three remote exams, the email said. The data indicated that he had looked up course material related to one question during each test, honor code violations that could lead to expulsion, the email said.
Jim Kenyon: In Dartmouth medical school cheating probe, the cure is worse than the disease
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In recent days, I’ve heard from students at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine who say they’re being falsely accused of cheating on exams administered remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I don’t know enough about the nuts and bolts of online testing technology to make the call. But since
Valley News health care reporter Nora Doyle-Burr broke the story last week, it’s become apparent that Dartmouth doesn’t either.