Sigh.
Grading midterms, I have come across my first case of plagiarism.
It is always so disheartening.
And always so infuriating, because WTF -- it's like they don't even try hard.
"How will you know if we plagiarize?" a kid asked me before the exam, whereupon I shot him a pitying look.
"Oh, please," I said. "I'll know."
He looked dubious.
"Son," I said, "I've been teaching 26 years. I know what a freshman level essay exam looks like by this point. Believe me."
But they never do.
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2 comments:
I had a serious problem with plagiarism in Kyrgyzstan. I just kept ratcheting up the penalties. Eventually, it worked. But, you have to be committed to failing every single student you catch at a minimum. It would have helped if I had any backing whatsoever from the administration.
Commiserations. It is, indeed, disheartening (and energy-sapping, and time-consuming, and generally detrimental to everybody's morale, useful educational activities, etc., etc.
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