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Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Tech cheating turns professors into sleuths - Jeff Ballinger, The San Luis Obispo Tribune
The creative use of technology by some college students to cheat on tests and plagiarize papers is compelling professors at Cal Poly to become high-tech detectives in an increasingly sophisticated struggle for academic integrity. Del Dingus, an earth and soil sciences professor, has caught students during a quiz using cell phones to receive text messages of answers from other students. One student turned in a paper he simply photocopied from a classmate's, Dingus said, but most who plagiarize are savvier. Paper mills that sell academic papers online are now getting around the usual problem plagiarizers face when they buy an "A" paper and have to dumb it down to make it seem like their own writing.
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