I suppose New CT is making it much easier to cheat by purchasing essays. But that same technology is also making it easier to catch the cheaters as well. This morning on the news they had a segment on "Turnitin". It's an internet based company that students submit their papers to. Turn it in electronically reviews the papers and through a process determining how the words are phrased and how much they repeat with other words from essays that are in their system (I'm assuming they use other student's essays and the more professional ones) Turn it in can give the essay a percentage of likelihood that the work was plagiarized.
Something else the news mentioned was that it had been used a lot in colleges, but lately more and more high schools are using it too.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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