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As Electrical engineering TAs in the late 80's, we knew who was copying class homework assignments from their classmates based on transcription errors in the ha
by AareyBaba 4y ago
As Electrical engineering TAs in the late 80's, we knew who was copying class homework assignments from their classmates based on transcription errors in the handwritten work that was turned in. Since the class professor couldn't care less about the cheating, we would consistently score the source assignments a few points less than the ones that had copied the assignment. We kept this up for the entire semester.
- xen0 4y agoYou graded the original worse than the copies? So the copiers were rewarded?
- bruce343434 4y agothey did lend their original out to be copied... thus facilitating dishonesty.
- seunosewa 4y agoIt's unjust, though, to punish those who facilitated an offence more than those who committed it.
- etherealG 4y agoSharing your work to others to copy isn’t facilitating, it’s committing. Cheating is cheating.
- xen0 4y agoSure; dock me a mark or two and tell me why. But why not just give a straight zero to the others that didn't actually do the work?
- seunosewa 4y agoYou must have thought it would discourage hardworking students from allowing other students to copy them. Did it work?