I'm curious about what folks do when faced with a academic dishonesty issue, one I've wondered about in the past and now has occurred again today:
I've had students deliberately, knowingly plagiarize, and when I tell them that I will be following the consequences for this act (student earns an F for the course), the students withdraw from the course. That way, a W shows up on their transcripts instead of an F.
What to do, if anything, about this inaccuracy? Oddly enough, I had this situation occur last year with a fellow going into *law enforcement* -- not quite a rule-follower, that fellow.
Evacuation roots
5 hours ago
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The only other thing you can do is to put in some kind of report with the Dean of Students -- because often a 'recommendation' from that office is necessary to get into programs.... what that does is to, in essence, put a mark on their "permanent record".
In some ways you back the student into a corner with the automatic F. I do this too -- and it really doesn't bother me much. But -- if you want to avoid the 'I'll withdraw before you fail me' bit, you'll need to give some kind of opportunity for a second chance --
Of course, the second chance could entail that you don't grade anything until after the W deadline, thus if you catch a second plagarism, you can just fail them and they can't do anything about it.
Yeah, thanks: I've thought these things, too. In fact, with the law enforcement guy, I told the department chair.
I'm not as keen about a second chance in most cases because of how I handle the whole essay-writing process.
And the "wait until after the withdraw date" idea is one I've thought about, but feels kind of passive-aggressive and dishonest to me. But it's appealing!
The whole thing bums me out because of the lack of respect it shows . . . and how much students are "up against it" and don't really want to learn: they just want to "get" something at an educational institution.
I do anything I can to avoid the paperwork that comes with a full plagiarism case, while still remaining just and fair.
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