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by aripickar
2268 days ago
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I think that the main reason that students want tutors and other resources is because office hours are slammed during projects, event though there are lots of TA's and readers. There are a lot of resources to help students with material in terms of understanding, but there are a lot fewer to help students debug projects, so I think that it's where a lot of the demand is. Unfortunately, I don't see Denero or Hilfinger allowing private debugging help for hire as a solution due to cheating and plagiarism risks. How do you ensure that the tutors are abiding within the honor code, and not helping students cheat? |
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To avoid helping students cheat, we have all Edlyft mentors agree to an academic honesty policy, go through mentor training, and all are interviewed before they join Edlyft. We've also considered recording sessions as well, but haven't gone that route yet.
But more than that it's been fascinating to watch some of our mentor sessions. What we've seen happen is some students actually prefer to use Edlyft to become an "excellent" CS student and hone their understanding of concepts vs. getting hw done just for the grade. My hypothesis on this is that our mentor sessions are unlike traditional office hours where you may only get 10min of TA attention. So, when students are able to slow down and really grasp concepts, doing hw on their own gets easier.