

THIS LINK will take you to an image search for the image above. One in three admitted they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment. A majority of students (59 percent) admitted cheating on a test during the last year, with 34 percent doing it more than two times. Click To TweetĪn ethics survey in 2010 looking at student cheating found the following: “Now students have such a vast amount of information available to them, the hard part isn’t finding SOME information, it is finding RELEVANT information.” Now students have vast information available, the hard part isn't finding SOME information, it is finding RELEVANT information. It was easy for us to plagiarise because their wasn’t plagiarism checkers, but at the same time we didn’t have an overabundance of information to choose from. If the information wasn’t in those books, it didn’t exist. I was limited to the information that was made available in the libraries in my district. As I found information in each of those books, I would need to assimilate that new information into my notes and then rework the assignment to make the text cohesive. When I did a research task as a student in high school, I would go to the library, get a number of books and then lay those books all out in front of me. There is a massive shift taking place in education. The ability to find, assimilate and produce your own work is becoming increasingly hard for students and the temptation to plagiarise is becoming harder to resist. Below are the best free and paid plagiarism tools for teachers (plus a bonus Google Add-on). There are some great plagiarism tools for teachers, some paid and some free.
