Re: Stanford finds computer science students cheat more than others

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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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