Schools Cheating the Able
The Facebook group has since been shut down. Carpenter, who resigned this month, is no stranger to cheating at Stuy. She was a proctor for the statewide Regents exams in , when 71 Stuyvesant students had their scores tossed for sharing cellphone photos of a test.
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Longtime principal Stanley Teitel, who was accused of hiding the wrongdoing, was fired over the scandal and a dozen students were suspended. For years, the school has tamped down on plagiarism by requiring students to submit papers via Turnitin, a website that scans work for passages that appear in publications on the Internet.
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Holiday gifts for the minimalist in your life. News Corp HarperCollins Marketwatch realtor. Of the 40, who were disciplined, were expelled or excluded from higher education, while 12, had marks deducted, affecting their final degree classification in many cases. Universities are now able to detect plagiarism more easily through the use of powerful software tools such as Turnitin , which inspects individual pieces of work for potential plagiarism by comparing them with an online database of academic material.
Technology Gives Students Innovative Tools for Cheating
But a more recent development has been the rise of internet-based essay-writing companies that can produce bespoke work for students, making such cheating hard to detect as plagiarism. Another service told an undercover researcher: One teacher told the programme: In one secondary school judged outstanding by Ofsted, a teacher reported that pupils were ordered to copy coursework directly out of a textbook by one of the most senior members of staff. Some are actually pushed out.
One example of the pressures on schools to improve their exam performances may be seen in the case of Vicky Cobb, a pupil at Portslade community academy in Brighton.
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But when it came time for Vicky to return to Portslade in , the school approached her mother. We were give no reasoning at all and we were like, hang on, why now?