Sheesh!

[enismirdal]

I have some papers to mark. These were ones from the practical I ran the other week - originally they were given to another student in my lab, but she's busier than I am, so I offered to take some of them off her hands.

Now, I'm a nice marker. I'll give the student every mark they deserve. I want them to do well. However...I have no tolerance for copying. I've just given about 8 papers a zero mark for the whole script because they were so obviously copied. When the question is about lasers and your answer is about blind spots, something's not right! Grrrrrr. And no, rephrasing the answer slightly isn't going to fool me.

Well, on the plus side, it means I can get through the papers faster.

On the minus side, those kids aren't learning anything...

Comments

[psieye.livejournal.com]

I haven't come across outright copying at least, but I did come across one paper where...

Student: "This question is badly written, so it doesn't deserve a properly written answer. Don't penalise me for stating the truth..."
Me: "Truth is subjective, as you were taught in Special Relativity"


Yes, the question could be slightly ambiguous, but everyone else applied Common Sense and correctly assumed that the magnetic field was much bigger than the proton's trajectory!

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

But if several write ups are the same, surely one of the people would wtitten it themselves - how do you tell which one? Unless they all copied from the same book/website?

[zafiro-v.livejournal.com]

What is it with 8 this year? That's the numbrte of copies I found in a paper for one of my classes...

[melime.livejournal.com]

On the minus side, those kids aren't learning anything...

Oh, I beg to differ! Sounds to me like they're learning "Don't fuck with Eni!" XD Or perhaps just "Don't cheat, idiots," which is a good lesson, too.

Wield the hammer of justice!!

[larianelensar.livejournal.com]

THat just makes me shake my head. And they are learning something...they can't get things past you...or they have to work harder to *not* work...*grin*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, the person who offered their script up for copying is just as guilty as the people who copied it. Giving them all zero will hopefully teach them so that next time, no one will allow anyone else to copy their script. >:)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Mwahahah! For mine is an evil, zero-giving hammer!

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you are strict and scary! :)