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Cheating and Plagiarism. Enid Brown & David Telles-Langdon Kinesiology and Applied Health. Cheating. Honest students rely on us to attempt to level the playing field What can we do to reduce cheating and plagiarism?. Test and Exams. Different test/exam for different sections
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Cheating and Plagiarism Enid Brown & David Telles-Langdon Kinesiology and Applied Health
Cheating • Honest students rely on us to attempt to level the playing field • What can we do to reduce cheating and plagiarism?
Test and Exams • Different test/exam for different sections • Different test/exam for students writing early/late • Students should bring photo ID and sign in • Students may not bring electronic devices
Test/Exam Setup • Book a second/larger room • Use dividers and/or assigned seating • Mix up order of questions (A and B tests) • Use long answer questions
Test/Exam Admin • Encourage washroom visits BEFORE test starts, discourage drinking • DT-L checks bathroom before exam for cheat notes (has found material) • No hats, or hats on backward
DRC Cautions • Tests in DRC should be written at SAME time as yours • Confirm student has no access to internet if using a computer • Fill out the form DRC sends regarding what student is allowed to use
Papers/Reports • Original research (video, interview, survey) • Choose article to be reviewed or ensure it is from the last 3 months (for example) • Watch for papers appearing in more than one course or for different instructor
Papers/Reports • Be specific regarding topic
Hats Bathroom tricks Laptops PDA’s MP3 players Mobile phones Dictionaries & Translators Highlighter scanners Voice recognition software Tools of the Trade
Hats • Notes under the brim • Protection for roaming eyes
Washroom options • Notes or texts behind the toilet tank or on the drainpipe under the sink • Crib notes rolled up in the toilet paper
Laptop computers • Store enormous amounts of text, video and audio files. • Can connect to the internet wirelessly anywhere on campus • Access to Hotmail accounts for unverifiableuploadednotes
Personal Digital Assistants • AKA - PDA, Palm pilot, Blackberry, IPAQ, etc. • Virtually the same issues as laptops only much smaller!
MP3 Players • Can record lectures to file folders
Cellular Telephones • Internet access • Hotmail accounts • Text messaging with a “friend”
Dictionaries and Translators • Dictionaries and Translators now all have storage capacity making them unsuitable for examinations
Highlighter scanners • Copy text into WORD as quickly as you can highlight a passage
Voice recognition software • Creates text in WORD as quickly as you can read a passage aloud.
Tricks of the Trade • Paper mills & Custom papers • Simple cut and paste from HTML files • More complex procedures with protected PDF files
Paper mills & Custom Papers • Paper mills ($9.95+/pg.) • There are dozens of sites offering pre-written papers • Some offer to buy papers too • Custom papers ($19.95+/pg.) • They claim these are written by grad. students • Some offer unlimited re-writes
Cut & Paste • It is easy to “cut & paste” from HTML files, WORD documents, PDF files (with Adobe Acrobat Full)
