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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Colleges' war against cheats goes high-tech - TODD ACKERMAN, Houston Chronicle
Texas A&M University has always prized its honor code, but last year faculty and administrators learned that the majority of its students don't. Seventy-five percent of respondents to a university survey admitted to having cheated in the past year. More than one in three said they had plagiarized papers from the Internet or elsewhere. "The most disturbing thing was a general attitude on students' part that plagiarism isn't a big deal," said Marty Loudder, an A&M accounting professor and chairwoman of a task force formed to address the issue. "Many seem to have the attitude that if something's on the Internet, it's everybody's." Last month, A&M began fighting back. Administrators purchased a subscription to Turnitin.com, a leading anti-plagiarism software program. The service, now used by roughly 1,500 U.S. universities (the University of Houston among them), scans student papers to see if material has been copied from the Internet or other papers in its database, which it claims number in the tens of millions.
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