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Cheating in Higher Education-Software Use

Could you let me know what software you use while finding the cheating of students ?

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Permalink Reply by Krishna Bista on February 17, 2011 at 3:41pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-VVcaIoyv4

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Permalink Reply by mickeybrown on June 11, 2011 at 12:46am

Thanks for the video. I find it useful.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Maffei on March 14, 2011 at 7:00am

Our university uses Turnitin predominately, but many faculty will also run material through the Google Scholar program for another review. Also in the past faculty have used EVE 2.0, but I am not sure how up-to-date and efective that program is, just not used it in a year or more.

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Permalink Reply by norbert kiprop boruett on July 19, 2011 at 10:28pm

This is interesting and i now a lot of cheating takes place in Kenyan academic institutions in the field of research- the idea of google scholar is exciting and promising. How do you run the Google scholar? i have not used it- i will give a trial

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Permalink Reply by Anil Kapoor on June 7, 2011 at 6:10pm

I have been asking students to email me their papers and I just take random lines from their papers and do a simple Google search. I have caught a few students using this technique. I also tell them ahead of time that this is what I am going to do and this intimidates them not to cheat.

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Permalink Reply by Lynne Y. Williams on June 8, 2011 at 3:43pm

We use TurnItIn; the link for uploading is embedded in our online courserooms, so if I read that paper that's "uneven" (patches of good writing interspersed with poor writing", or some phrases look too familiar, I load up the entire original paper-

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Permalink Reply by Tamara Fudge on August 19, 2011 at 9:54am

I use TurnItIn.com and for some assignments, send the whole kit 'n' caboodle, so everyone's paper is checked. Othertimes I'll only send in someone's work if I suspect the writing isn't theirs or it seems familiar.

Lately, Turnitn hasn't been catching some things. A simple Google search using a few suspect phrases can often net a match.

It's sad how many students, once caught, say "I didn't mean to do it." Yeah, right, you didn't mean to copy 50% of a paper?