Take-Home Exams in University Mathematics and Science Subjects: Some Ethical Considerations

Abstract

This article addresses some challenging perspectives related to offering take-home exams in mathematics at university level. The challenges arose during work on a previous article where four perspectives originating from Bjerrum Nielsen’s framework (2003) were used to analyze universities’ assessment methods during the Covid lockdown in our country. The perspectives had some ethical considerations that were beyond the scope of the previous work. They include social, ethical but also personal aspect of the students involved. We raise a discussion and conclude that the arguments lead to new questions that need to be followed up. We finalize the article with an argument as to why the discussion is important even in a post Covid situation.