Cheating In a Technology Rich Environment
Combating Plagiarism with Technology
Henry E. Schaffer
Professor Emeritus of Genetics and Biomathematics
Coordinator of Special IT Projects & Faculty Collaboration/ITD
Interim Director Emeritus, LTS/DELTA
Does it happen?
On-line
Paper Mills YES!!!!
Waste
of money
A humourous
comment
Overviews: Excellent Resource Pages (from Libraries)
Resources for Web Plagiarism:
Prevention and Detection
Cheating
101: Paper Mills and You
Video
on Plagiarism
Non-text Plagiarism: Computer software
Does it happen?
Academic
Dishonesty in a High-Tech Environment (also includes text cheating)
Moss (Measure
Of Software Similarity) a detection tool.
SNITCH
(Spotting and Neutralizing Internet Theft by CHeaters) a detection
tool.
"Outsourcing" homework? Can it
be done by hiring someone? (It appears that people have tried this, even
though this company excludes hiring someone for "implementing of a final
project or writing a final thesis".)
Using Technology
Technology and Methods
- A free challenge
method
Theory and
discussion
- Turnitin.com a commercial service
for higher ed (there are others - see Resource Pages)
product
Click on Sample
Plagiarism.org an educational
resource developed by Turnitin.com, and its
resources for
preventing plagiarism
iThenticate
the commercial (non-edu) version of turnitin
- "A Web-Enabled Plagiarism Detection Tool" by Colin J. Neill and Ganesh
Shanmuganthan in the Sept-Oct 2004 issue of IT Professional pp 19-23.
- MyDropBox "technology to
detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism."
- SafeAssignment
"designed specifically for the Blackboard^(TM) Learning System." from
MyDropBox
- SafeAssign
"a new plagiarism detection service that was announced at BbWorld,
offered by Blackboard as part of the Blackboard Enterprise platform at
no additional cost."
- Copyfind for
Windows - Copyfind for
Linux
Software to detect plagiarism - from the University of Virginia. Also
see discussion
- SPlat the Self-Plagiarism
Tool
- DOC Cop a free plagiarism
detection tool
- Do your own search - put quotes in a search engine
e.g., "many
facets to understanding plagiarism"
- While any web search engine can be used to search the web,
there is a search service which emphasizes "scholarly literature,
including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and
technical reports from all broad areas of research." and can be used
"to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers,
professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, ..."
This is Google Scholar, and can
be used as an additional source. Microsoft provides a beta version of
Windows Live Academic which
indexes "content related to computer science, physics, electrical
engineering, and related subject areas."
Uses and Discussion
- Actions Do Speak Louder than Words: Deterring Plagiarism with the
Use of Plagiarism-Detection Software by Bear F. Braumoeller and Brian J.
Gaines. PS: Political Science and Politics, 34:835-9 December 2001
(available through JSTOR)
- Term
Paper Mills, Anti-Plagiarism Tools, and Academic Integrity
by M. Groark, D. Oblinger and M. Choa
- NY
State bill to illegalize purchase of term papers on the internet
- Technology
and Plagiarism in the University: Brief Report of a Trial in Detecting
Cheating by Johnson,D., Patton,R., Bimber,B., Almeroth,K.,
and Michaels,G. 2004 - "reports the results of a trial of
automated detection of term-paper plagiarism in a large, introductory
undergraduate class." It covers deterrance and student reactions.
- Teachers
Adjust Lesson Plans as Web Fuels Plagiarism
- The need for care:
The Web's plagiarism police by Andy Dehnart
- Is trying to detect plagiarism unethical? or illegal?
- Pima
Community College creates "traffic school" for plagiarists
- Anti-Plagiarism
Strategies for Research Papers
- How
Dumb Do They Think We Are? by Jonathan Malesic. A teacher's take on
student plagiarism.
- "Guilty
Until Proven Innocent" "The Well-Known Secret about Turnitin.com" A
rather hostile anti-Turnitin discussion.
- A
comparison of 7 anti-plagiarism software tools by Liz Johnson
- eTBLAST
"A text similarity-based engine for searching literature collections".
A paragraph is input, and it returns similar paragraphs.
- UTSA
students commit sin they're trying to halt
P.S. My
short discussion in the context of Computer and Information Literacy
or Fluency.
"How to
get away with plagiarism" My discussion of ethics and plagiarism.
More resources:
- Plagiarism
Resource Center by Sharon Stoerger 2001 - also see her 2002 resource site.
- Plagiarism
resources at UIUC
- Technical
Review of Plagiarism Detection Software University of Luton
undated, but probably mid-2001
- JISC
Plagiarism Advisory Service (PAS) "aims to raise awareness of plagiarism
in the academic community by providing" advice, guidance, discussion, ...
- "The Definitive Guide to
Internet Plagiarism" news, discussion, etc.
- "Plagiarism -
What it is and how to avoid it" NCSU History Department Resource site
- International
Journal for Educational Integrity "The journal provides a platform
for educators across all sectors to research issues in the
multi-disciplinary field of educational integrity."
- Plagiarism
Tutorial as part of a larger Copyright Tutorial.
- Plagiarism
in the Corporate World - with a $1 million result.
- Catching Cheaters
with the Web a CNN video.
- Academic
Integrity and Computer Use NCSU Office of Student Conduct
- Copyright
Jungle by Siva Vaidhyanathan. A discussion of legal, business,
ethical and practical aspects.
- Cheating
101: Detecting Plagiarized Papers
- Plagiarism and
the Web
- The
Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard A. Posner, a noted jurist and
legal scholar. Plagiarism today harms
the reader. among other problems.
- EssayFraud "is a watchdog
organization that investigates hypocrisy involving plagiarism in
academia."
- Faculty
Theft - Are faculty/administrators innocent of plagiarism and other
academic thefts?
- Saving Time
or Betraying Trust? discussion of U. Md. CP's discussion
- Plagiarism
in Chinese higher ed from the Chronicle (subscription required)
- Arguing
Against Free-Market Plagiarism Prevention" from Inside Higher Ed
- Plagiarism
and Historical Journals from the American Historical Association. A
news article "Confronting
- and Not Confronting - Plagiarism" covers an AHA panel - from
Inside Higher Ed
- IEEE
Procedures for Publications see Section 8.2.4 for Allegations of
Author Misconduct - which includes plagiarism
- Plagiary "A refereed online
journal ... addressing general and specific issues related to
plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification.
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Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 by Henry E. Schaffer
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