AAPT Summer Meeting Day 4: Cheating on Physics Homework
During the penultimate day of AAPT I attended a very interesting session about cheating in physics homework assignments. One of the presentations was done by Prof. Wolfgang Bauer from the Michigan State University. The idea by Prof. Bauer is not to try to prevent students from cheating on online homework assignment, but to increase the accountability such as cheating becomes counterproductive. For example, he has quizzes every week where the students have to solve problems they learned how to solve during homework…