cheating and plagiarism

Cheating and Plagiarism

Enid Brown&

David Telles-LangdonKinesiology 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

Tools of the Trade

• Hats• Bathroom tricks• Laptops• PDA’s• MP3 players

• Mobile phones• Dictionaries &

Translators• Highlighter

scanners• Voice

recognition software

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)

Example of a protected PDF

Using the “Print Screen” key to “copy” it to WORD

Using “Draw” to remove the watermark “sample”

We can Google too…