Posted on 10/28/2006 4:51:20 AM PDT by Flavius
Graduate students in journalism weren't singled out in the study. Interestingly, however, last week Newsweek announced that it is teaming with Kaplan Inc., the education service provider, to offer an online business degree called Kaplan University/Newsweek MBA.
Ethics in journalism meet ethics in business, and Styx be crossed.
I have an MBA....According to the article, I guess I am a big cheater!!! lol.
I have an MBA....According to the article, I guess I am a big cheater!!! lol.
Since I have one too, I'll just copy plagerize your post to save time from having to do my own research/thinking.
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LOL.
Profs may not want to take the time to "catch" cheaters.
My kid had one prof who required that all papers submitted to him were also submitted online through "turnitin.com."
Wonderful site...useful tool...it detects exactly how much of the paper is web based and reports a percentage. So "buying" a paper online, or cutting and pasting is automatically detected.
I've also noticed there are "tutors" online that will do your homework for you. Submit your higher math or science homework, and they'll do it and send it back in a file, for a fee. What I don't understand is how a person who has someone else do his homework for him, actually passes a test.
The Peter Principle is still in effect, thankfully.
They should do a study on lawyers and politicians.
If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago about the use of Ritalin on college campuses.
The kids use it to stay awake so they can "cram" and evidently there is a black market of sorts for Ritalin.
The students who don't use it are upset because they say it's actually a form of "cheating"...just as steroids is cheating in professional athletics.
http://www.azcentral.com/families/education/articles/0801back-ritalin-ON.html
Thanks for posting that. I will read it. With all the caffiene, energy drinks, etc. why ritalin?
I used to teach at a Big-10 university. I took a hard line against cheaters; unfortunately, some of my colleagues did not. I have heard professors offer all kinds of excuses for students who cheat: they're young; they're under a lot of pressure; this one has a learning disability; that one is a member of an underrepresented minority group; and so on.
It was not just the faculty. I would refer cheaters to the Dean of Students, recommending that they be expelled. But when enrollments were down, the DoS was under pressure not to expel anyone. Often, nothing much would be done.
As a Broadcasting major back when I was in college, I cannot imagine why anyone would WANT a Master's in journalism.
My kid drinks that Red Bull stuff...yuck, I can't stand the smell.
The article seems to indicate that the Ritalin not only keeps them alert, but "focuses" them which helps on a test.
The whole "focus" thing is because they were raised with the TV as their electronic baby sitter and X-box as their nanny. I doubt that most kids could sit still for more than 10 minutes without the need for audio/video stimulation. It is tragic and why people are adverse to a job that requires them to sit behind a desk.
I state for the record that none of my (MBA program) Managerial Economics students cheated. I know that because all of my tests and quizzes were open book, open notes and homework, and open computer (or calculator). One student even brought a printer to class on the last day, so he could print his final test.
I did graduate work in computer science over the last two years. Only had one experience with cheating... I was doing a group assignment with a good friend who was another American student (as two of the three American females in our program we automatically were best friends), an acquaintance who was from Mongolia and a nice guy, and this other guy who got shoved on our team. He was from the Middle East. Our first assignment.... a no brainer, a three day 'research and present this topic' thing, he gave the two of us American girls his share of the work. Every word in his five pages was verbatim copied from the internet.
We went to the professor, whose response was to take him off our team. There were excuses thrown around like 'in his culture it's not considered cheating' but the facts were that my friends and I could have lost our funding if we hadn't caught his cheating, but because he paid tuition the school policy was to give him another chance.
***What I don't understand is how a person who has someone else do his homework for him, actually passes a test.***
I understand how a student passes a test without doing his homework. It's routine for some professors to NEVER bother to compose new tests each year. Fraternity and sorority houses have file cabinets full of tests and ANSWERS to them.
It should be a requirement for all professors to turn in their new tests to their department heads who should have them filed (and locked) and reviewed each semester. If the prof. IS the dept. head, then the dean's office should review his tests.
I've done that. My professors prefer typed exams, and will let us take them home for 8 to 24 hours at times. It gives you a little more time to think, to compose yourself, and to give the professor a product he doesn't need the entrails of a newt to comprehend. (A lot of people including myself - especially under stress - have horrible handwriting.)
As a fringe benefit, I type faster than I write.
Laptops have really changed the way college classes work now.
I forgot to mention that I required several graphical solutions to problems, so my students needed some ability to use EXCEL to produce the graphs. I required all homework assignments to be Emailed to me as spreadsheets - I refused to accept paper - and I did teach and demonstrate how to build tables of formulae and construct graphs from them.
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