Clearly, assignments in areas such as language arts and social studies lend themselves to the essay form more readily than do subjects such as math. But even in math, requiring students to explain how they figured out their answers makes it more difficult to cheat on a test. Tell students caught cheating that they are liars. What It Is , an essay that appeared in Education Week last August. While not a perfect solution, the notion of 'cheating as lying' helps cast the moral argument more clearly.
Students get it.
Calling someone a liar may seem harsh, but that's precisely the point. For students to acknowledge that cheating is a problem, they must feel it as something which is truly wrong. When this is the situation, I make modifications, such as letting someone else read the test to them. Ware believes that encouraging students to ask questions or express their concerns if they don't understand material in class also cuts down on cheating. Give the student a zero for the assignment.