According to an article in The Daily Princetonian, students in a Princeton math class relied on an answer posted to Slader, an online help site, for completing a problem on a homework assignment despite being told that using the site was forbidden. The offending students were identified when they submitted homework with a false solution that had been posted to the site by a course TA.
This case raises a number of questions about cheating, how it is defined, how it’s seriousness is determined, and how instructors and institutions might respond to it. The article includes information and interviews with the accused students, the course instructor, and university officials. The coverage is rounded out by an opinion piece subsequently posted by the editor in-chief of The Daily Princetonian.
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