Crime in the Classroom Part III: The Case of the Ultimate Identical Twin

This paper describes an unusual case of academic misconduct which was detected by the computer program SIGNUM; both students eventually confessed. The student who gave the answers to their colleague rewrote a scrambled version of the original exam. The answers given on the make-up differed from the...

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Published in:Journal of chemical education 1998-04, Vol.75 (4), p.482
Main Authors: Harpp, David N, Hogan, James J
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Multiple Choice Tests
Organic Chemistry
Statistical analysis
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