From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/06 Message-ID: <7r13k2$3b1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 521772356 References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <7qood6$h3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37D04424.16486E1E@pwfl.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x22.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 129.37.79.39 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Sep 06 19:11:05 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , wf@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Bill Findlay) wrote: > In article <37D04424.16486E1E@pwfl.com>,Marin David Condic wrote: > > > The bad news is that as this sort of thing gets perceived to be widespread > > and rampant, the value of a good grade goes down. You can say you > > graduated from Glasgow in CS with a 4.0 average and folks outside the > > school will think "Yeah, but so what? Most of the fresh-outs from there > > got their homework from the Internet, so its easy to get a 4.0" Hence the > > innocent are dragged down with the guilty. > > > No one with an average of 4.0 would have the slightest hope of graduating. 8-) I actually find that students don't help themselves OR their grades by copying on assignmments. What happens is that they don't learn as they should from the assignments, and then they blow the exams completely. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.