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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1549521" data-attributes="member: 10201">After seeing your next post on this: that's ridiculous. Not your behavior--theirs. Though i am skeptical of your claim that you are under-reporting cheating, just because i can't conceive of cheating exceeding, or even approaching, 35% in academia as a whole. I certainly never ran into any evidence of it, personally, in 7 years of full-time undergraduate studentness. I sincerely hope my experiences are more representative than yours. (Though i realize they may not be.)as for take-home exams: only professor i had who used those extensively did so precisely to make them different from conventional exams. He told us outright that not only could we use our notes and textbooks, we could use anything we wanted from the library, we could ask each other, we could even work together. We just had to show all the work.  He probably would've allowed internet resources, too, if they'd existed at the time. I presume he reasoned that successfully solving the problem, even if by having the solution explained to us, was of greater educational value than conventional testing. Often a dozen or more of us would gather in a library and work the problems out as a group. Usually still took us a dozen or more hours, working together, to complete an exam, so it's not like they were easy. OK, sorry 'bout the tangent.</blockquote>