How To Pave The Way To An Easy A

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How To Pave The WayTo An Easy A
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CHEAT!
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Aggies do not lie, cheat, or steal, nor do they
tolerate those who do. however Aggies Elaborate,
Collaborate and Borrow.
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The Facts

• 75 of students surveyed by University of Texas,
  University of Arizona, and Michigan State
  University admitted to cheating.
  
• A survey of 14,000 students at 50 colleges found
  that 75 of their students cheated.
  
• And remember these are only the kids who admitted
  it
  

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Reasons To Cheat

• School costs too much to fail
• Studying takes up too much time and effort
• Improved rankings
• Peer and parental pressure
• Socially accepted
• Instructor indifference
• Just because they can, i.e. unmonitored Web CT
  labs
  
• Class is too hard

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The Old Standbys

• Write on gum wrappers, hand, fingers, sleeves,
  cap, desk, pencil, calculator, if it has a
  surface, they will write on it
  
• Leave imprint of answers on cover sheet
• Typed and printed (small font) notes and put them
  on your clothes
  
• Plagiarize part/all of work
• Using cheat sheet
• Going to the bathroom to look up answers

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Other Ways To Cheat

• Getting answers from their neighbors
• Turning in the same paper to different teachers
• Copy prior semesters work
• Forcing make-up assignments
• Communicating through codes and sign language
• Writing heavy in a notebook with transparent
  cover
  
• Breaking into professors office, hacking their
  files, bribing someone with access
  
• Body parts, clothing, tools.
• Body doubles
• Extort, badger, and bribe

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Technology Is Your Enemy

• Cell Phones video, photos, text messaging, web
  surfing, e-mail, silent ring mode
  
• Pagers small, e-mail, pre-store information,
  silent ring mode
  
• MP3 players, CDR/W all use headphones, all can
  store recordable data, easily hidden, disguised
  as music
  
• Personal Digital Assistants PDAs text
  storage, messaging, chat, web surfing, e-mail,
  storing hand written class notes
  

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Technology Is Still Your Enemy

• Water bottles
• Carefree Gum- yes gum
• Calculators
• Purchase test bank online i.e. EBay
• Internet cut and pastehow hard is that
• E-mailing themselves answers in computer labs

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Examples

• One student used skittles to tell their friend
  which answer to choose by color.
  
• I pods can hold an entire semesters lecture
  recordings, with an earpiece and a hooded jacket
  it is nearly undetectable, one student made a
  play list and replaced the song names with
  definitions.

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How are they using it

• Cell phones using the earpiece have an unlimited
  range
  
• Bluetooth has a limited range of 30 to 100 feet,
  i.e. I pod to cell phone
  
• Beaming limited to within the room, works much
  like infrared technology, beaming a signal from
  Palm Pilot to Palm Pilot
  

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And

• Using earpiece to talk to friends at home. Just
  hide it under your hair and mumble so the teacher
  thinks you are reading the questions
  
• Tape notes to the inside of the label on a water
  bottle.
  
• It is even said that chap stick will confuse a
  Scantron machine

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The World Wide Web Of Deceit

• Cheathouse.com offers 9500 essays from 44
  categories
  
• Chuckiii.com list thousands of completed essays
  free
  
• Phuckschool.com has 35,000 essays (admission
  essays, dissertations, thesis)
  
• Masterpapers.com custom essay, term paper writing
  service
  
• Papergeeks.com - 20,000 papers (fee per paper)
• Schoolsucks.com 80,000 hits per day
• Termpaperblues

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What To Look For

• Phrases that might not come from an
  undergraduate
  
• Late work
• Wandering eyes
• Hats, long sleeves, jackets
• Frequently out of their seat for any reason
• Student being nervous
• Students who stall

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What Are The Colleges Doing

• Photo I.D.s on the desk at all times
• Providing monitored rooms to take quizzes online
• Allowing students to bring a cheat sheet when
  they take the test. It must be handwritten and
  turn in with the test
  
• Utilizing Plagiarism Detection Tools and
  Services
  

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Honor Codes

• On exams and assignments On my honor, as an
  Aggie, I have neither given or received
  unauthorized aid on this academic work.
  _______________
• Signature of student
• University of Texas will begin requiring its
  52,000 students to swear to a pledge and honor
  code which includes components on values and
  respect.
• University of Virginia has had an honor code
  since 1842
  
• 200 Colleges currently use honor codes

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Effectiveness of Honor Codes

• Colleges with Honor Codes have 25 to 33 fewer
  incidences of academic dishonesty.
  
• University of Virginia with an 162 year honor
  code last year had 72 cases of academic
  dishonesty and 9 expulsions
  
• Larry Falkner President of U.T. admits In a
  competitive environment with intense and complex
  information, its easy to forget those things, so
  the Honor Code is a reminder

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Then What Can We Do?

• Communicate policies to students and faculty
• Faculty should reinforce and remind students of
  unacceptable behavior
  
• Establish non-permissive examination
  environments
  
• Apply consequences in a consistent, fair and
  timely manner
  
• Maintain an environment of trust and honor
• Keep up with technology. Know how the new gadgets
  work
  
• Put devices such as damping fields, or all metal
  lined rooms that cut off cell phone service in
  the classrooms
  

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What Can I Do?

• BE A ROLE MODEL
• HAVE A STATED POLICY AND USE IT, MAKE NO
  EXCEPTIONS
  
• ALWAYS LOCK YOUR OFFICE DOOR
• SHRED YOUR EXAMS
• CHANGE VERSIONS REGULARLY
• GIVE MULTIPLE VERSIONS
• CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT
• WALK THE ROOM
• SPREAD EM OUT

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You Can Also

• Do not permit late topic changes
• You can use in class assignments
• Pop quizzes over basic knowledge
• Require outlines and rough drafts
• Keep work on file for 5 years or more and
  publicize it.
  
• Change topics regularly and keep them current
• Avoid general topics
• Make the students leave their bags/cell phones at
  the front of the room

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Prove It!

• Collect your evidence and be prepared to prove
  your accusation.
  
• Speed is of the essence .. Web sites remove the
  articles to avoid proving the cheating occurred.
  
• Use technology to fight technology, such as
  turnitin.com to compare phrases within term
  papers against a vast database.
  
• Students have been known to sue to have their
  grades changed and records restored.
  
• When caught they will deny, badger, create
  issues, plead ignorance, express remorse, use the
  syllabus as a defense.
  

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Conclusion

• Students do and will cheat.
• They will use the most ingenious methods to do
  so.
  
• It will be extremely difficult to catch them and
  to prove it.
  
• The best way to prevent unethical behavior, is to
  eliminate the opportunity for it to occur.
  

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Citings

• http//www.theacorn.com/news/2005/1117/Community/0
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• http//www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename
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  e
  
• Jeffery Popyack, Nira Herrmann -Academic
  Dishonesty in a High-Tech Environment
  http//www.wikihow.com/Cheat-on-Exams
  
• http//www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-26-ch
  eating-study_x.htm

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Citings

• http//tiger.towson.edu/users/ayarbo1/ISTCgrouppro
  ject.htm
  
• http//www.azcentral.com/families/education/articl
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