INTERNET RESEARCH

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

 
BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

Student Cheating & Plagiarism In the Internet Era

Available from Libraries Unlimited http://www.lu.com/lu/showbook.cfm?titleid=517
This book by Ann Lathrop & Kathleen E. Foss is available in the Gananda Library.   It is especially useful as a guide to how to recognize plagiarism, how to become savvy about the new electronic means of plagiarism, how to detect plagiarism, and - best of all - how to prevent plagiarism in the first place.

The Plagiarism Handbook

This book by Robert A. Harris is available for purchase from http://www.AntiPlagiarism.com  It is an excellent overview of the topic and is particularly strong on methods for helping students to avoid plagiarism pitfalls.

 

  New Survey: 7 in 10 Teens Admit School Cheating

  http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-19468,00.html
This is an article from the parent portion of The Learning Net.  "Likening the results to “a hole in the moral ozone,” a California-based ethics institute has released a new nationwide character study showing that a majority of American teenagers cheat on tests and lie to their parents."

Many Teachers Ignore Cheating, Survey Finds

No longer available http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/educaton/educationweek/A58297-2001May7.html

Article written By Mark Stricherz  for Education Week, Wednesday, May 9, 2001 :   "Nearly half the high school students in a nationwide survey said they believe their teachers sometimes choose to ignore students who are cheating in class. And more than half admitted they had used the Internet to commit plagiarism."

Technology Exposes Cheating at U-Va.

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Article written by By Amy Argetsinger Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 9, 2001:  "Technology Exposes Cheating at U-Va. :  Physics Professor's Computer Search Triggers Investigation of 122 Students".

 

High-Tech High School Cheats

  http://www.teacheruniverse.com/career/career_news/tech_cheating.5.30.01.html
"With today’s tech-savvy kids, cheating on exams has become much more sophisticated -- and harder to catch." (ABCNews.com May 29, 2001)

Electronic School: Digital Deception

  http://www.electronic-school.com/199903/0399f2.html
An overview of the issues. Pay attention to the use of fax machines, high-powered calculators etc. to enhance cheating.

 

Christian Science Monitor School cheating as social corrosion

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/09/05/p11s1.htm
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved.
An interesting editorial on student cheating issues. 

Eagle Online - Cheating is common

  No longer available http://eagle6.stark.k12.oh.us/Smith%20Stuff/allnews/news/97412/cheating.html

Here is an article written by students for The Glen Oak High School Student Newspaper about student cheating.   The following ways for teachers to stop cheating are listed.

·an ethics code for all;
·an honor statement signed by all students in class;
·peer group counseling;
·seat students as far away from one another as possible during
tests;
·different versions of tests;
·vary tests from year to year;
·automatic F..

U. of Virginia Hit by Scandal Over Cheating. (cover story)

http://search.epnet.com/login.asp
You will need to type in a user name and password to access this title.  Once you are into the site, just type the title of the article into the search box
"Discusses a cheating scandal at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Code of honor at the university; How many students cheated on term papers in a physics course; Discovery of the cheating by physics professor Louis Bloomfield using a computer program designed to detect similarities between papers; Suspicions that the Internet has increased cheating; Increase in cheating across the United States; Punishment of those that cheated; Response from students."

 SOME GOOD NEWS About ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

http://search.epnet.com/login.asp
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"Looks at the success of strategies implemented by universities and colleges in the United States towards reducing academic dishonesty. Conclusion reached by a survey on state universities about the relationship between modified honor codes and levels of student cheating; Elements needed for the success of a modified honor code; Suggestions on how a modified code can be implemented."

 

Schools Fight Back Against Internet Plagiarism

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53402-2001Sep6.html
"To a student desperate to get a good grade, the Internet is not merely a source of research information, it is, 'a 1.5 billion-page searchable, cut-and-pasteable encyclopedia.'  That is the message from John Barrie, the developer of software used to catch online plagiarism"

 

Plagiarism - Google Web Directory

http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Educators/Plagiarism/ 
This is a list of web links to learn more about this issue.  The list is compiled by the Google search engine.