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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: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 26 2018, @04:40PM (2 children)
But where do you get a pack of dogs that only responds to ethics?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 4, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 26 2018, @04:43PM (1 child)
And, just to be clear, I am just curious. I do not in any way intend to release this pack of dogs on the floor of congress.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 26 2018, @04:51PM
Hilarious!