Some 122 students stand accused of cheating on term papers in a popular introductory physics class, with as many as half of them expected to face the only penalty available for cheating here: expulsion or loss of degrees awarded in earlier years.
But Linda K. Trevino, chairman of the department of management and organization at Pennsylvania State University's business school, said she found little evidence that cheating on term papers had increased when she compared a 1963 survey of students with one she wrote in 1993 with Donald McCabe, a Rutgers University professor who founded the Center for Academic Integrity.
But it's the Digital Age now, and between unverifiable, unattributed information sitting around online and the general ease with which young people obtain, alter, and share creative content on the Internet, students can't seem to figure out that cheating on a paper is wrong.
How can you cheat on a friend?
A20 EDUCATION Virginia Cheating Inquiry More than 120 students at the University of Virginia have been accused of cheating on physics term papers.
To avert cheating on paper-and-pencil exams, administrators often give students versions that differ slightly from the exams their peers took a month or a year earlier.
While some educators have raised concerns that the Internet has made cheating on exams and term papers easier, Professor Bloomfield's program raises the potential of electronic sleuthing to match it.
Oh sure, I cheat on my paper books now and again with my e-reader, especially when I'm traveling.
In this case, however, the accused plagiarist was no misbegotten sophomore, but rather, a United States Senator and decorated Iraq war veteran who allegedly cheated on a paper he submitted for his master's degree at the Army War College.
"Shena put my pinkie in (the shears) and said, 'This all could have been avoided if I had just not told her that her boyfriend was cheating on her,'" Rager told the paper.
