Artifact # 7: Cheaters Beware

The article, Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating, starts off talking about how teachers have been way behind the students when it comes to cheating. But now teachers may have finally found their solution. According to this article, teachers have been technology to catch their students cheating. For example, using text-matching software, webcams and biometric equipment. This has been making it a little harder for students to cheat on papers, tests and homework. As I was beginning to read, I found it shocking that the percentage has risen from about 21 percent in the mid-1900s to 50 percent in 2002. Although it has dropped 10 percentage points, it's still a lot of people who have admited to it. At UCF studnets have to take their tests on cheat-resistant computers in a new testing center. This has also decreased the number of people cheating at this university. The article then talks about the ways students cheat. They cheat by using Bluetooth, texting, notes in cellphones, and programmable calculators. In my experience, my past teachers have not let us use ipods, make us turn our phones off in front of them and they have to go around the room and check our calculators if we use them. Also when I've had to write papers we have to turn it in to http://www.turnitin.com/. This website check to make sure we haven't plagarized.