Just a suggestion, but it may be more efficient to conduct midterms/finals in this class if you do everything the same...except give out outlines with all the possible questions for the essays to be hand written for the test.
So on the day before the test, give the students the outlines with the test questions on it. The outline should provide students the theses and citations from Takaki, Bold
Words, CRT term/tenets, etc. for the essay. It should be enough to get a good basis on
what to write, but not enough to copy the outline word-for-word so that students could finish the whole essay way before the time limit.
This will give the students plenty of time to cite sources and come up with well-structured essays. This should help because when the students walk in, they don't have to worry about collaborating with other students beforehand. They can start right away and finish the test within a reasonable amount of time. And students should still be able to learn and study the material this way. Again, this is just a suggestion that worked pretty well for my English teacher last year.
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