Digital+Cheating

TODAY - Choose roles In order to create a well-functioning collaborative group, each group member will assume a role. · Group moderator – (Brett Flail) - pose questions, ask for clarification, keep the conversation going and focused · Thematic finder – (Julie Myers)- look for themes in the discussion, publish the themes, refine the themes · Citation guru – (Jamie Golden)- seek clarification, ask for proof, decide where citations are needed, help locate sources when necessary · Editor – (Christian Brown) - establish a timeline for completion of the “group artifact”, use themes to develop a writing/creation plan, communicate and execute a direction/vision for the “group artifact” · Publisher – (place name here) - Use your tech skills to manage the production of the artifact.

BEFORE NEXT CLASS - Every group member should post on this page a resource, an idea, a response.

i'm cool with that.

-christian

I was thinking we should probably meet at 3:00 on Wednesday instead of 3:30. I think it's going to take a little bit longer than expected, plus this gives us time to rehearse.

**__ Cheating By the Numbers __**

** Survey Says: ** · 89% said glancing at someone else's answers during a test was cheating, but 87% said they had done that at least once. · 94% said sharing answers with a classmate during a test was cheating, but 74% admitted to doing it. · 47% said providing test questions to a fellow student who had yet to take a test was academically dishonest; nearly 70% admitted to doing so. · 47% said providing test questions to a fellow student who had yet to take a test was academically dishonest; nearly 70% admitted to doing so. · 23% said doing individual homework with a partner was dishonest; 91% had done so. · 39% said writing a report based on the movie instead of reading the book wasn't cheating; 53% had done so. (Source: LiveScience.com, 2010) · 83% (13-17 yrs old) kids have a cell phone, 53% had one since 12 or younger · <35% admitted to cheating via cell phone · 52% admitted cheating involving the Internet · 38% copied text from a website to pass as their own · 65% students used cell phones during school · 69% school polices do not permit cell phone use (Source: Common Sense Media, 2009) · B oys tend to cheat more than girls · Type-A personalities tend to cheat more · There is not a strong link between cheating and moral development · Cheating increases during the transition from middle school to high school (Source: Common Sense Media, 2009) -Brett
 * Cell Phones: **
 * Demographics of Cheaters: **

hey here is my handout feel free to post comments questions or concerns. I didn't want to make it to long because I planned on showing the label cheating video first which is about 3 minutes. -christian Digital Cheating and How Kids Utilize It What is Digital Cheating? A dishonest act or gaining an unfair advantage through the use of technology or digital media Types of Digital Cheating -Bottle Labeling: Labels are scanned, edited, printed and pasted on bottles -Cell Phones: They are used in a variety of ways in the classroom -Pictures of the test are sent through text messaging to students -Individual answers to tests are sent to students through a text -Information and study materials are saved as notes in a students cell phone -Smartphone’s are used to access papers to copy and paste materials -Cell phones with web access are used to find answers on the internet -Internet: The worldwide web has mass amounts of free available information for cheating and other type of Academic Dishonesty -Paper Mill Sites: Websites that offer other students’ essays for availability -examples: [|__www.schoolsucks.com__] [|__www.writework.com__] -Lecture Note Websites: Websites that offer notes, character lists, and summaries on books and other novels -examples: [|__www.sparknotes.com__]

[|__www.pinkmonkey.com__]

Sources:

[|__http://www.edutopia.org/technology-student-cheating-prevention__]

[|__http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2009/06/23/one-third-of-teens-use-cellphones-to-cheat-in-school.html__]

[|__http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=9&n=9__]

So I was just looking around for more statistics on digital cheating when I came across this power point presentation: media type="custom" key="8282766" http://www.slideshare.net/diben/digital-cheating It has links to a couple of useful videos and websites that we could use such as this one from a CBS Early Show report media type="youtube" key="Z98zgsatwAw" height="390" width="480" I'll post my section Demographics of cheating later tonight. -Brett

Here is my handout artifact. I was going to show the websites on the computer during class.

**Tools that Detect Plagiarism**

**Plagiarism Checker: www.plagiarismchecker.com** **Article Checker: [|www.articlechecker.com] ** **Plagiarism Detect: [|www.plagiarismdetect.com] **
 * Free online service, using google or yahoo search engines
 * Search words or phrases from a document
 * Word limits; Google: 32 and Yahoo: 50
 * Results in another webpage
 * Similar tool using Google or Yahoo, both can be used to compare
 * Use a text box or a URL of a webpage
 * Takes blocks of text to run through search engine
 * Can set up Google Alert for positive matches
 * Full-featured web service
 * Paid or free options; free option requires sign-up
 * Upload doc or text files or paste in text box
 * Basic duplicate checking
 * Does not uploaded documents
 * Results neatly displayed

**Quote Finder: www.quotefinder.com** **DOC Cop: doccop.com** o Compare up to 8 Microsoft word or PDF files against each other o Report in either HTML format or doc format in e-mail o Duplicate check through internet for doc file, webpage, or PDF o Limit 550 words o String word length specified by dropdown o Requires registration and use through guest ID o Real time status shows current status o 1 hr for report sent to e-mail Sources: Basu, S. (2009). Plagiarism Checkers: 5 Free Websites to Catch the Copycats. []
 * From Google Blogoscooped: “unofficially covers google related news”
 * Highlighted results in yellow
 * Number of sources from web as superscript
 * Click on highlight to go to Google results page
 * Free web service; either web check or file check
 * File check:
 * Web check:

Wow guys we've come up with a ton of good information that we can use towards making our artifact for the presentation. It seems like we have several different topics that we can cover so I was thinking we could divide up topics among each other. Here are the topics I feel like we have mentioned: (feel free to add/remove any)
 * Brett (2/2/10)**

1. What is digital cheating and how do kids do it? 2. Demographics on cheating 3. Tools that detect cheating. 4. Educating our kids to prevent plagarism

Of course the question is how would you guys like to compile these topics into an artifact? Dr. Dietrich posted a couple sample artifacts on D2L that we can use for ideas. The group that did Digital Cheating last year made their own wikispaces website as their artifact. With a website we could post those videos Julia posted in the section on how kids cheat. Or another group did a powerpoint presentation. If you guys have any other ideas please post them.

I really like how you broke it down into four categories, all of which really help to define digital cheating. I think it would be a good idea to do a wikispaces website. Each of us could take one of the four categories to expand on. Each section could have summary paragraphs of the information we have gathered as well as tables and graphs to show the demographics on cheating. I think this would be the best way to make an artifact and all of us can contribute. We should not only expand on our certain section, but also add or edit others as we see fit. Jamie
 * 2/2/2011**

Brett (1/20/11 8:36PM) Hey, just to get things started I thought it would be a good idea that if you post any articles that you summarize the key points and ideas from it so that we don’t have to read through every article. By doing so we will be able to pick up on any recurring themes that we may come across. I’ve been doing some research on “Digital Cheating” and came across this article written by a high school English teacher:

[] The author argues that as technology continues to improve cheating is becoming easier and easier. Some of the new ways students have learned to cheat is by taking pictures of tests on the phones and forwarding them to their friends. For literature, students now have access to sites like SparkNotes, PinkMonkey, ClassicNotes, and BookRags. He also mentions all the “Free Essay” sites that come up after a Google search. Although it’s possible to catch plagiarism through sites like Turnitin.com he argues that there is so much material available that students can create “hybrid papers so easily.”

I think this is article sheds light on the new ways which students are able to cheat today, but it doesn’t have a lot of factual information to back it up. I found this article however that reveals the findings of survey study at a Midwestern high school. Here were the results verbatim from the article:

[] > Basically, the study supported recent research that claimed 80-90% of students cheat before graduating high school. Although this article didn’t provide much insight on “digital cheating” I think it has a lot of useful information. A few other fun facts the article provided (but did not cite) included:
 * 89 percent said glancing at someone else's answers during a test was cheating, but 87 percent said they had done that at least once.
 * 94 percent said sharing answers with a classmate during a test was cheating, but 74 percent admitted to doing it.
 * 47 percent said providing test questions to a fellow student who had yet to take a test was academically dishonest; nearly seven out of 10 admitted to doing so.
 * 47 percent said providing test questions to a fellow student who had yet to take a test was academically dishonest; nearly seven out of 10 admitted to doing so.
 * 23 percent said doing individual homework with a partner was dishonest; 91 percent had done so.
 * 39 percent said writing a report based on the movie instead of reading the book wasn't cheating; 53 percent had done so.
 * Boys tend to cheat more than girls
 * Type-A personalities tend to cheat more
 * There is not a strong link between cheating and moral development
 * Cheating increases during the transition from middle school to high school

The one fact about cheating not being linked to moral development is something we touched on in class on Wednesday. Students, especially those in honors and gifted programs, are pressured to get good grades and that getting the wrong answer is failure. The motivation to cheat is probably more based on this concept rather than moral judgment.

Jamie 1/24/11 I found an article from 2008, which might be a bit outdated considering the advancement in technology is rapid. This article discusses how many students have admitted to cheating and how it has become easier for students to do so in this electronic era. Here is the url: [] I found this article on the Millersville library website [|www.library.millersville.edu]

__Article: Digital Cheating and Plagiarism in Schools__ by Hongyan Jane Ma, Guofang Wan, and Eric Yong Lu. This article is about the research involving interviews and surveys conducted with high school students. The article gives reasons as to why students cheat as well as it provides strategies to deal with digital cheating in the classroom. Surveys conducted said that young people have a more lax attitude when it comes to cheating which is why teachers need to address these issues. Students’ ethics have deteriorated with technology. Here are some ways teachers can reduce cheating and plagiarism in the classroom: 1. Teach students how to cite and bibliography correctly. 2. Try to relate activities and topics to own interest or need in order to engage students. Students feel justified when cheating on something that they find boring or meaningless. 3. Peer culture is also very important in terms of its role with decisions leading to cheating. Teacher’s can try to create an environment that encourages ethical behavior. 4. Also, teachers can use anti-plagiarism software packages in order to detect cheating. 5. Punishing cheating is also important. The article discussed how the lack of punishment for digital cheating has contributed to the lax attitude towards it by students.

I also found some interesting facts about how many students have cell phones and other stats on cell phones. Here is the url: []

83% (13-17 yrs old) kids have a cell phone, 53% had one since 12 or younger <35% admitted to cheating via cell phone 52% admitted cheating involving the Internet 38% copied text from a website to pass as their own 65% students used cell phones during school 69% school polices do not permit cell phone use

This website also defined digital cheating. Cell phones and the Internet have made cheating easier. Cell phones can be used to store notes, text friends answers during test or quiz, take photos of test question to be forwarded to friends who did not yet take test, or smart phones can be used to search Internet for answers. Kids might not even be aware that what they are doing is cheating or plagiarizing.

For our lesson, maybe we can show how to use anti-plagiarizing software either by actually dong it on the computer or maybe there is a youtube video on how to use this kind of software. Just a suggestion, let me know your thoughts. --Jamie

hey, i found an interesting cite that talks about how educators need to reevaluate how cheating is being done due to the rise of expertise that more and more secondary students have with computers. The article talks about some of the ways these students cheat but primarily highlight plagiarism. The article further explains that some students plagiarize through the internet knowingly and others who do it unknowingly. The article concludes that educators must recognize the difference between the two and act accordingly. The author also gives interesting information about frequent sites that highschoolers typically use to find pre-written essays and even goes to explain the costs of some of the essays that are being sold for (30$-100$). So i think the site is pretty interesting and has some useful information depending on the topic. [|Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation] I do like Jamie's topic on some of the new cheating techniques of the electronic era. It would probabally be interesting to research and there is alot of information out there about it.

-christian

Conradson, Stacey & Pedro Hernández-Ramos (2004). Computers, the internet, and cheating among secondary school students: some implications for educators. //Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation//, 9(9). Retrieved January 24, 2011 from http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=9&n=9

I like Brett's statistics on student's perception on cheating, and I think that ties nicely with Christian's article that discusses how some students do not realize they are cheating or plagiarizing. It is important as educator's that we inform students as to what constitutes as cheating. Also, I think it interesting to know the different sites that students use in order to find written essays. This information ties nicely with the ways teacher can reduce cheating in the classroom.

Julie []

This article discussed how kids have been posting youtube videos teaching other kids how to cheat. What struck me was that the kids interviewed felt that they had not done anything wrong unless people found out they were the ones who made the videos. They had the mentality of cheater that, “you are only breaking a rule if you get caught.” In light of the article I looked up some youtube videos on cheating. media type="youtube" key="91lQK5SCzlQ" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="BZg_G8djiHY" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="UyY-EqYW6Fs" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="S2DNACy4_5I" width="425" height="350"

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This article expressed several reasons why students cheat and some possible solutions. The solutions were pretty much worthless and impractical. It also mentions how plagiarism used to mean copying by hand. Now kids can copy and paste a sentence here and there from any number of cites, reformat it a little, and call it their own work. Reasons for cheating: Solutions:
 * Everybody does it.
 * Unrealistic demands for academic achievement by state education boards
 * Expediency or the easy way out
 * · Schools need to have zero tolerance policies concerning cheating
 * · Teachers must do such a good job that kids don’t want to teach
 * · Parents must set an example of moral excellence

Julie Myers How to Prevent/Detect Cheating 1. Stand at the back of the room. (Students can’t see you, so it has a panopticon effect.) ~Kim McCollum Clark during a lecture 2. Circulate around the room 3. For multiple choice tests, make multiple version of the test. If a student looks at another students test or texts, “What’s the answer to 7?” the students won’t all have the same number 7. ~Laura Myers during my interview 4. Ask students to turn in cell phone and mp3 players before the exam is distributed, or do not allow students to bring such devices with them on exam days. (The problem with this method is if students are willing to cheat they are probably willing to lie about having their cell phone and/or mp3 player with them.) 5. Do not allow beverages (especially ones with labels like soda and water bottles) on exam day. 6. Do not leave tests and answers key unattended. (In extreme cases, tests and keys should not be left in school overnight. Students have been known to break in after hours to steal these items.) How to Prevent/Detect Plagiarism 1. If a sentence does not seem to fit a student’s typical writing level, enter it into the google search bar. If it was plagiarized, the original paper will pop up from the search. ~Laura Myers during my interview 2. There are numerous websites like Grammarly.com for students that detects plagiarism and checks grammar, enhances vocabulary, and checks contextual spelling. Teachers can request or require students run their papers through one of these free cites before submission. ~Laura Myers during my interview 3. There are several websites like Turnitin.com for teachers that detect plagiarism. But, most of these services charge a fee. ~Jill Craven during a lecture