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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, @04:46PM (2 children)
So, learn the material and come up with a unique solution to the problem?
That is the most diabolical form of cheating I have heard of!
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 26 2018, @05:29PM (1 child)
Don't forget the icing on this diabolical cake. Make sure it's over the teacher's head, so that he/she is simply awestruck, and begs to be permitted to prostrate him/herself before your superior intellect.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 26 2018, @08:36PM
Oh I thought the top form of cheating would be to use these skills to get a job. Then they give you the money. Then, 20 to 30 years later you just walk out the front door like nothing happened.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/acaxis/key-and-peele-the-heist [cc.com]
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh