Re:NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a B...
by charliepark on Friday July 22, 2011 @07:57AM
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This.
There should be an automatic filter, with manual review of violations, that all papers are submitted through. If it fails the filter, it's returned to the student, and the professor hasn't even seen it. The student can redo it, or protest the automated decision, and a human reviewer (an anonymous TA on-campuse) can consider the case (and see the offending text). The reviewer would then pass it on to the professor, who can grade it, or return it to the student to improve.
This removes the burden and the penalty from the professor, whose job isn't supposed to be policing plagiarism infractions.
There should be an automatic filter, with manual review of violations, that all papers are submitted through. If it fails the filter, it's returned to the student, and the professor hasn't even seen it. The student can redo it, or protest the automated decision, and a human reviewer (an anonymous TA on-campuse) can consider the case (and see the offending text). The reviewer would then pass it on to the professor, who can grade it, or return it to the student to improve.
This removes the burden and the penalty from the professor, whose job isn't supposed to be policing plagiarism infractions.