Cheating Detected in Remote Final Exam for Military Students
All Exam Results Invalidated for the Entire Class
University Considers 'Offline Exams as Default' and Other Alternatives...
AI Usage Guidelines to Be Announced Soon
Another case of collective cheating has been detected during the final exam of an undergraduate course at Seoul National University.
On December 21, Yonhap News reported that "nearly half of the 36 students enrolled in a general education course offered by the College of Natural Sciences at Seoul National University were found to have engaged in cheating during the final exam, resulting in all exam results being invalidated."
This course was a military remote class designed for students on military leave, with both lectures and exams conducted entirely online. To prevent cheating, the exam questions were displayed on the screen, and any attempt to view another window would leave a log record. Upon review by the teaching assistant, such records were found for nearly half of the students.
However, the logs did not specify which windows were viewed, so it was not possible to definitively prove cheating. As a result, instead of disciplining the students suspected of cheating, the professor invalidated the exam results and assigned an alternative task.
The professor in charge of the course stated, "Although there is no definitive evidence, it appears that a significant number of students are suspected of cheating. It is unfortunate for the students who studied hard and took the exam honestly, but there was no other choice but to invalidate the exam."
Seoul National University is currently developing countermeasures against cheating at the university administration level.
It is known that the university is discussing making offline exams the standard, and for online exams, considering alternatives such as designing open-book questions or assigning project-based exams.
In addition, guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) are also being developed.
The guidelines will include provisions requiring instructors to clearly state their policies regarding AI usage in the syllabus, so that students can confirm this in advance. It has been reported that the university is currently gathering feedback from members of the university community on the draft guidelines.
A Seoul National University official told Yonhap News, "Reducing online classes itself does not align with the direction of the times," adding, "We are discussing ways to develop new evaluation methods."
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