I once worked as a part-time visiting lecturer in CS.
I routinely got assignments handed-in that students had evidently copied from one-another. More than half of the students were handing in copied work. In at least one case, they hadn't even botherd to change the name at the top. Usually they had the sense to change variable- and function-names, but not always.
As a newbie lecturer, I asked my colleagues what to do. They said: "You can fail them. You'll be accused of racism (most of the students were brown-skinned). They will appeal; you'll then have to sit on exam boards through the summer, which is unpaid for a visting P/T lecturer. There's a good chance the school will overrule you, because these are paying overseas students."
"Or you can tell them that you've noticed the 'sharing' that's been going on; that collaboration and sharing is encouraged, but that they must never do it in marked assignments."
I adopted the latter course of action.
Being a part-time visiting lecturer is a crap job.
The linked article and this entire discussion is addressing the ethical issues that surround grading, originality, and plagiarism. How is AI going to be able to apply the "correct" ethical code when all of us can't seem to agree?
I routinely got assignments handed-in that students had evidently copied from one-another. More than half of the students were handing in copied work. In at least one case, they hadn't even botherd to change the name at the top. Usually they had the sense to change variable- and function-names, but not always.
As a newbie lecturer, I asked my colleagues what to do. They said: "You can fail them. You'll be accused of racism (most of the students were brown-skinned). They will appeal; you'll then have to sit on exam boards through the summer, which is unpaid for a visting P/T lecturer. There's a good chance the school will overrule you, because these are paying overseas students."
"Or you can tell them that you've noticed the 'sharing' that's been going on; that collaboration and sharing is encouraged, but that they must never do it in marked assignments."
I adopted the latter course of action.
Being a part-time visiting lecturer is a crap job.