tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post4520992517457585655..comments2023-10-17T10:15:01.021+01:00Comments on Mantex ...: Problems of PlagiarismMANTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14711438259770578268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post-22703414684410488022007-04-11T17:50:00.000+01:002007-04-11T17:50:00.000+01:00The key is developing a culture of responsibility ...The key is developing a culture of responsibility and engagement in something of value to the writer rather than chasing individual cheaters <A HREF="http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/ethical/policytemplate.html" REL="nofollow">more</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post-8497546381322992662007-04-10T20:01:00.000+01:002007-04-10T20:01:00.000+01:00Two examples come to mind. First was a student who...Two examples come to mind. First was a student whose 18 page essay suddenly began to sound familiar; I then relaised it was copied from one of my own textbooks. He got a royal bollocking and had to resubmit(social work students, as this one was, never get thrown out). Secondly a student this year submitted an essay which was written in such excellent English style that I suspected it was plagiarised. I kept it back and a new unit in the university submitted it to the tests available with the new software Roy mentions. After much delay and messing about I realised in the end this was a brilliant student and gave him 80%!skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02632351344359303404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post-80127864881907218882007-04-10T11:46:00.000+01:002007-04-10T11:46:00.000+01:00I agree with what you say - and can add an even mo...I agree with what you say - and can add an even more difficult situation. On some online Open University courses that I teach, you may never actually meet your students. So if you come across a sudden improvement, there's always a possibility that it's somebody else's work. That's one problem - and here's another.<BR/><BR/>I trialled some online courses in a sixth form college recently. Some of the answers to questions were so identical, it was clear some copying was going on (confirmed by a visit to the classroom). The problem when marking such work is that there's a strong temptation to imagine that the first of such answers is the 'original', and the second one you come across the 'copy' - but it could be the other way round.MANTEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14711438259770578268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post-54888444823261365682007-04-10T09:51:00.000+01:002007-04-10T09:51:00.000+01:00If a student who struggles to answer simple questi...If a student who struggles to answer simple questions in class, or to complete class assignments, suddenly submits an excellent essay - well, it's a bit suspicious. Similarly, if performance under examination conditions is inexplicably worse than in a set essay, that's a also a little odd. If you know your students plagiarism is more easily detected; but in big university departments where lecturers can barely recognize most of their students, it is obviously a bigger problem.Politaholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787923053839036543noreply@blogger.com