Kevin Chen writes a post in his blog about incentives and scaling from his two years as a teaching assistant. Specifically in his current post he addresses plagiarism in computer science and why it has still not stopped.
The most important goal is to keep the course fair for students who do honest work. Instructors must assign grades that accurately reflect performance. A student who grapples with a problem — becoming a stronger programmer in the process — should never receive a lower grade than one who copies and pastes.
Finally, as educators, we also hope that the accused student can learn difficult lessons about ethical behavior in the classroom rather than the workplace.
From his experience, every semester somewhere between 10% to 40% of the students carry out blatant, indisputable cases of plagiarism with an unknown amount of less clear cases left unaddressed. How does this match with soylentil's experiences here, either in computer science or other fields? The perspectives are likely quite different from institution to institution as well as whether you are still studying in college or university, recently graduated, or in a teaching role.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Virindi on Monday March 26 2018, @01:12PM (1 child)
Everyone on up keeps saying that, the cheaters get a degree with high honors which gets them a job where the noncheater (with higher actual skill is rejected), then once installed in the workforce the cheater turns to office politics and backstabbing to succeed. It is likely they continue to to this in perpetuity, and in the process the people who do actual good work (but don't play politics) are penalized, making doing real work a sucker's choice.
(Score: 2) by Virindi on Monday March 26 2018, @01:15PM
Move that ) left a bit. Damnit. Funny article on which to make such errors.