Cheating and Plagiarism

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Cheating and Plagiarism

• Enid Brown
• David Telles-Langdon
• Kinesiology and Applied Health

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Cheating

• Honest students rely on us to attempt to level
  the playing field
• What can we do to reduce cheating and plagiarism?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Papers/Reports

• Be specific regarding topic

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Tools of the Trade

• Hats
• Bathroom tricks
• Laptops
• PDAs
• MP3 players

• Mobile phones
• Dictionaries Translators
• Highlighter scanners
• Voice recognition software

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Hats

• Notes under the brim
• Protection for roaming eyes

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Washroom options

• Notes or texts behind the toilet tank or on the
  drainpipe under the sink
• Crib notes rolled up in the toilet paper

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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 unverifiableuploa
  dednotes

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Personal Digital Assistants

• AKA - PDA, Palm pilot, Blackberry, IPAQ, etc.
• Virtually the same issues as laptops only much
  smaller!

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MP3 Players

• Can record lectures to file folders

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Cellular Telephones

• Internet access
• Hotmail accounts
• Text messaging with a friend

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Dictionaries and Translators

• Dictionaries and Translators now all have storage
  capacity making them unsuitable for examinations

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Highlighter scanners

• Copy text into WORD as quickly as you can
  highlight a passage

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Voice recognition software

• Creates text in WORD as quickly as you can read a
  passage aloud.

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Tricks of the Trade

• Paper mills Custom papers
• Simple cut and paste from HTML files
• More complex procedures with protected PDF files

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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

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Cut Paste

• It is easy to cut paste from HTML files, WORD
  documents, PDF files (with Adobe Acrobat Full)

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Example of a protected PDF
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Using the Print Screen key to copy it to WORD
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Using Draw to remove the watermark sample
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We can Google too