But the tactic of making the students fear discovery is wrong anyway. Only a a code of honor can help. Such agreements were abolished during the student unrests of the 60s, but are slowly coming back into fashion.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Only an honor code can help
Donald L. McCabe gave a talk in Berlin and three in Bielefeld at the beginning of February on his latest research into plagiarism attitudes and the number of people self-reporting plagiarism. The Berlin Tagesspiegel has published a good interview with him about the topic of honor codes.
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Hmmh, Texas A&M has an honor code, held very high with long tradition. Talk about it often.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, according to the honor council people, A&M's (known, i.e reported) plag cases are not signif lower than those at other US universities ... maybe A&M people report more and others report less?
That's interesting - have they published it anywhere? I'd like to try honor codes in Germany, but if they don't work, then we should avoid it.
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