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From: tlh@mordred.cs.purdue.edu (Thomas L. Hausmann)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <1303@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 20:42:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: arthur.1303
Posted: Mon Apr 27 20:42:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 04:13:50 EDT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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Summary: Clarification on use of references.

In article <1419@uwmacc.UUCP>, oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster) writes:
> In article <11370002@hpldorp.HP.COM> kens@hpldorp.HP.COM (Ken Shrum) writes:
> >I see no gray area.  If the student isn't
> >supposed to get outside help, use literature references, use
> >non-textbook references, etc.  and then proceeds to anyway then
> >cheating has occurred.
> 
>    And how many courses do you take where the instructor *explicitly
> prohibits* the use of anything but a single text?  In my humble opinion,
> both as one who learns and one who teaches, that'd be tantamount to telling
> the students that they aren't *really* supposed to be learning much.  "Oh,
> and, by the way, don't do any reading outside class, because you might learn
> more than me, and we can't have that!"  Right.
> 

    There is a clear difference (to me anyway) between doing outside reading
    to gain perspective on some material and "digging" to find answers.  So there
    is a gray area here.  It depends on the students motivation for doing the
    outside reading.  But asking students not to use outside references on
    an assignment is encouraging them to develop certain thought processes
    on their own and learn something.
 
    Tom

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