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Know -before it was internet, it was books from the library -professors are brginning to have preference for tests over paper dues to the difficulty of cheating on a test as apposed to how easy it is to plagarize a paper -Plagarizing are both easy to do and easy to catch

Want to know -what percent of papers are plaggarized? -why do schools allow or make excuses for this sort of activity? - what does Alfie Kohn have against competition? -what is the difference between reading a book and reading online?

Learn Based on Molly Pease's experience, out of 1000 student papers only 5-10 are completely plagerized.There was a similar level of plagarism 15 years ago.Students plagiarize because: According to Andrew Daines we need to teach an "Ethics Class" Arguments for students' innocence based on their ignorance of the rules of the road.
 * they do not understand the material
 * lack confidence in their own work.
 * don’t understand how to cite a source properly
 * cant summarize words into their own ideas

Alfie Kohn: (1) instructors have no real relationship with their students, (2) students experience academic tasks as pointless or overwhelming, (3) // how well // students are doing (e.g., grades and test scores) matters more than // what // they’re doing, or (4) achievement is construed competitively such that the goal is to outperform others Cheating is less common in classrooms where the teacher and students are engaged.

Benenson Strategy Group surveyed 7th-12th graders, 35 percent admitted to cheating by cell phone during a test Because of the web, knowledge isn't absorbed and interpreted. It is retrieved and passed along.