Lit Hum exam leak
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From WikiCU The Lit Hum exam leak took place in Spring 2007. Prior to the exam, Wen Jin, a Lit Hum section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the passage identifications.[1] These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the Class of 2010, and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By May 4th, when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. [2]
[edit] Aftermath[edit] Email to studentsIn an email to students on Monday, May 7th, 2007, the Core Office sent an email to students confirming "that there was a significant misjudgment on the part of one Lit Hum instructor, which has resulted in a complicated situation". The office announced that they were "looking into [the] matter". The email was sent from Patricia Grieve, Chair of Literature Humanities, and Deborah Martinsen, Associate Dean of the Core Curriculum. [edit] Email to instructorsEarlier on Monday, May 7th, 2007, Deborah Martinsen had sent an email to all Lit Hum instructors that also confirmed "an unfortunate breach in Lit Hum final exam security". She explained that the Core Office had a copy of the notes. Furthermore, Martinsen told instructors that one quotation had been substituted at the last minute. Thus, while the leaked info identified the quote from Crime and Punishment as coming from the Epilogue, it in fact came from another part of the novel. Martinsen said that students identifying the quote as coming from the Epilogue likely had access to the study notes. Also, instructors were told to suspect students who "correctly identified all of the other passages" and/or "the exact Canto in Dante". Martinsen told instructors that the Core Office is still "trying to determine how widely these answer sheets circulated". She asked instructors to "refrain from submitting your final grades" until she gets back to them with grading recommendations "later in the day". All of this year's Lit Hum blue books will be submitted to the Core Office. [edit] Decision to offer second examOn Tuesday, May 8th, 2007, a faculty ad hoc committee including Dean Austin Quigley and Core Curriculum administrators concluded that exam security had been severely compromised, and that freshmen would be offered the choice of taking a second Lit Hum exam or having their grade on the previous Lit Hum final not count for their final semester grade. [edit] The study guidePart I- Possible Identifications [edit] The passage identificationsThe Crime and Punishment passage identification exposed many students who had used the study guide, as the guide had predicted the excerpt from Crime and Punishment would be from the epilogue. We keep imaging eternity as an idea that cannot be grasped, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all of that, imagine suddenly that there will be one little room there, something like a village bathhouse, covered with soot, with spiders in all the corners, and that's the whole of eternity. I sometimes fancy something of the sort. -Crime and Punishment, Part Four, Chapter 1 (not the Conclusion) [edit] References
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