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Re: Stanford finds computer science students cheat more than others
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:29:54 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Mr Richard Berlin <rberlin () pacbell net> Date: February 11, 2010 11:24:05 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Stanford finds computer science students cheat more than others In addition to more comprehensive detection tools, I think the change in the level of basic computer literacy may be contributing here. I was a grading assistant in intro CS courses at Stanford in 1982-1983. Even without the electronic measures they have developed in the intervening years, we averaged about 1 case caught each term, dutifully referred through the honor code process...and to our knowledge never had a single student sanctioned. A lecturer I worked with at the time opined that the committee members dealing with the cases were not well-versed enough in such matters to understand how damning the evidence was: for example, another grader and I were gabbing and discovered that we each had in our stacks a final project submission with 17 compiler errors. This prompted us to do a file diff which showed that the programs were character-for-character identical except for a comment on the last line saying something like "(* have a nice xmas! *)" -- Rich From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 5:01:54 PM Subject: [IP] Stanford finds computer science students cheat more than others Begin forwarded message:
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall () gmail com> Date: February 11, 2010 7:23:12 PM EST To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Stanford finds computer science students cheat more than others http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/heading-off-the-temptation-to-cheat-in-computer-science-classes-at-stanford/ "Historically, the computer science department accounts for between 20 to 60 percent of all honor-code cases, even though the courses represent about 7 percent of student enrollment." perhaps it's just easier to detect? ::) best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate UC Berkeley School of Information Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy http://josephhall.org/
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