Abstract Academic dishonesty in online classes is widespread, and instructors’ attempts to minimize its effects have had mixed results. We validate one approach to reducing the benefits from cheating on online exams: the use of paraphrasing. In three online undergraduate auditing courses, we challenged students with a verbatim test bank question and a paraphrased question for each topic tested. The students performed better on the verbatim questions compared to the paraphrased questions (80.4% vs. 69.1%), even after we controlled for use of an honor code statement and online exam proctoring technology. Our results are consistent with the notion that, when faced with a paraphrased test bank question, students cannot easily find the answer on the Internet because the question does not exist in a verbatim form online. Our study is important for educational institutions and professors seeking to combat academic dishonesty and for instructors wishing to avoid the pitfalls of using test banks.

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解决在线课程中使用测试库问题时的作弊行为

摘要在线课堂上的学术不诚实现象十分普遍，而教师为尽量减少其影响而进行的尝试却产生了不同的结果。我们验证一种减少因在线考试作弊而带来的好处的方法：释义的使用。在三门在线本科审计课程中，我们向学生提出了逐字测试题和针对每个测试主题的复述题。即使我们控制了荣誉代码声明和在线考试指导技术的使用，学生在逐字问题上的表现也比释义的问题更好（80.4％比69.1％）。我们的结果与以下观点相符，即当面对释义的测试题时，学生无法轻松地在Internet上找到答案，因为该问题并不以逐字形式在线出现。