Copy cats. 9/21/2004
plagiarism
n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone’s words or ideas as if they were your own [syn: plagiarization, plagiarisation, piracy]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University, www.dictionary.com
The recent controversy over the copied question in the recent UPSR exam, and the high handed attitude taken by the Exams board over the fact that the question (or parts thereof) was indeed copied from a workbook published by a private company has got me thinking. Is anyone’s head actually going to roll for this? The DG of the board? The person who set the question? If a student in a university was caught plagiarising, that student would be expelled, or at the very least penalised.
The Star had something interesting to say about the way that questions for national exams are formulated and put together on last Sunday’s edition of their paper. Apparently the teachers who are in charge of setting the questions for the paper are sent off to a resort somewhere and work on it. Sounds like a free holiday to me, and this was admitted as much anonymously by a teacher who had been involved in the setting of exam questions. Makes you really wonder about the efficiency of Government departments (they suck) and where your tax money goes (into a black hole).
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- Author : thesnark
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