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Cheating Via the Internet at College
Electron Barrage writes, "An anonymous professor writes that last year about half of the seniors at his US university were suspected of cheating, mostly due to the Internet and community sites such as Wikipedia. He guesses that perhaps 25%-30% were actually guilty, a huge increase from earlier levels. According to this professor, it's nearly impossible for the universities to keep up with the new forms of cheating enabled by the Net. Will academic institutions learn to deal with this new reality? It sounds a little dubious from this professor's viewpoint." The article mentions the anti-cheating services Turn It In and iThenticate (while decrying their expense), but expresses worry over the new countermeasure represented by Student of Fortune.
A more common excuse as to what's really going on. BTW, I wrote this Slashdot comment. :P
Attention impoverished college professors with a malicious sense of justice and an ability to write plausible looking bullshit! Now you too can earn $$$ while wrecking the lives of trust fund cheaters!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Wikipedia represents the most notorious source of cheating since campus libraries!
When these damned cheaters get out into the workforce, they are going to continue to cheat! If their boss demands a recent history of the economy in Brazil, these losers will just hop online and get the answers rather than going to the library and doing their research. Heck, many of them may even cut and paste text directly from internet resources into their reports, further debasing themselves.
I don't work in an engineering field, but a friend who does told me -- in strict confidence, so please don't quote me on this -- that many engineers these days use computer programs to do their job, and only keep slide rules on their desk in case their boss comes by.
It is a scary world we are entering, with both the workplace and the university become result-oriented rather than method-oriented. One day soon, people may even think they can get a decent education without sitting in lecture halls for 20 hours a week!
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
I just provide the links to the data and tell my prof to RTFA.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Offer a bounty to catch cheaters. Pissed off at the guy who's getting a better grade than you because he's cheating? Prove it and make yourself a couple of bucks. With every student looking to do in everybody else nobody would dare try to cheat.
Part of the problem is society coddles these miscreatants. One time in Chem I overheard this guy talking about his solution to not having enough time to do his homework. He copied. If I had stood up and made it public what I overheard I could have fucked him over big time. If everybody did it people would be afraid. I didn't. I don't want to bring to much attention to myself. Live like a ninja, hide in the shadows you know.
Anyway moral of the story: Whenever somebody does something wrong, go psychotic on their ass. People think nobody cares if they shit all over the place. If you show them not only do you care, but you just might break their fucking face for it they'll learn. They'll learn to be paranoid. Next time you're out and you don't have a trash can nearby for your candy wrapper put it in your pocket. Somebody might take an offense to littering. And they might not care if injuring you is an appropiate response.
What a complete lie.
/., you don't have a girlfriend.
You're posting on
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
Try proof-reading 101.
Try preview 101.
Hah, nice.
... changing all variables to 1 letter, removing all comments, removing all extra whitespace, basically making one "block" of code. Then he compared the normalized blocks to other people's blocks. He turned up two identical ones, and then gave them a t-shirt in class that said "I got busted cheating" ... but only one t-shirt. He said they would just share it anyway.
One of my professors took the LISP code we turned in, and ran a 'reduction' program on it