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Gene Brian Bisson
AVID / Social Sciences
Carpinteria High School
4810 Foothill Road
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Phone: (805) 684-4107 ext. 243 Fax: (805) 566-5952
email: gbisson@cusd.net
Note About Grades
22 February 2009 - Before you check grades there are a few things you should know. I recently announced to all of my regular college prep class a three option homework schedule and they all look different in the gradebook and will modify the extra credit option for different students. Only two of these options appear on the class homework calendars. All three options require the students to follow the daily reading schedule, attend class regularly and on time, complete current events on schedule and do assigned projects and in-class activities.
Option 1: Follow the homework schedule, reading sections and answering the assigned questions. Completed work must be turned in or emailed by the tardy bell at the beginning of class. Tardy students' work is not accepted even if emailed. Work will be entered into the gradebook ideally daily but at least weekly.
Option 2: Students may take good notes in Cornell notes format as they do their daily reading. Depending on one's handwriting, the volume will generally be about one page of notes for every 3-4 pages of reading but more or less is acceptable as long as they have all the information needed to perform well on the tests and quizzes. The notes are collected on test/quiz day only so as not to tie them up while the student needs them. In the gradebook this option will make the student's grade look artificially low as homework will be marked as missing on a daily basis until the notes are turned in. At that time I will go back and give the student credit for the "missing" work, which will correct the grade. This is the option I suggest for college bound students as it helps them develop an essential skill needed in college.
Option 3: The student may be excused from this portion of their grade requirement with a written, signed release from the parent (even if the student is 18 years old). I will contact the parent to confirm that they in agreement with this choice. This will show up in the gradebook either with a notation of "ex" or a blank for the assignment. This option reduces the point pool and makes every remaining available point more valuable. It also reduces the points available as extra credit. I accept approximately 8% of the scheduled points as extra credit; by choosing this option the number of scheduled points is reduced and, therefore, so are the number of points available to the student for extra credit. I discourage this option for students who have a history of procrastination.
Schools Banning iPods To Beat Cheaters
By Rebecca Boone
April 27, 2007
Using iPods to cheat is hardly a new phenomenon, but sometimes it takes awhile for teachers and administrators, who come from an older generation, to catch on to the various ways the technology can be used. Some students use iPod-compatible voice recorders to record test answers in advance and them play them back during the tests.
Remember that there is no tolerance for cheating in any of my classes.
Some examples of cheating are:
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Copying another student's work
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Allowing your work to be copied
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use of cell phones during class (especially texting)
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interacting during tests or quizzes
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etc.
For more information on plagiarism, click on the link above.
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious -- students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device.
Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt collar to give them away, school officials say.
"It doesn't take long to get out of the loop with teenagers," said Mountain View High School Principal Aaron Maybon. "They come up with new and creative ways to cheat pretty fast."
Mountain View recently enacted a ban on digital media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players.
"A teacher overheard a couple of kids talking about it," said Maybon.
Shana Kemp, spokeswoman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, said she does not have hard statistics on the phenomenon but said it is not unusual for schools to ban digital media players.
http://www.newsfactor.com/news//story.xhtml?story_id=021002DSUQRL
A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools
A Crisis in America's Schools — How It’s Done and Why It’s Happening
ABC News
April 29 - Angelo Angelis, a professor at Hunter College in New York City, was recently grading some student papers on the story of Paul Revere when he noticed something strange.
A certain passage kept appearing in his students' work, he said.
It went like this, Angelis told Primetime's Charles Gibson: "Paul Revere would never have said, 'The British are coming, the British are coming,' he was in fact himself British, he would have said something like, 'the Red Coats are coming.' "
Angelis typed the words into Google, and found the passage on one Web site by a fifth-grade class. Half a dozen of his college students had copied their work from a bunch of elementary school kids, he thought.
The Web site was very well done, Angelis said. For fifth graders, he would give them an "A." But his college students deserved an "F".
Lifting papers off the Internet is one of the newer trends in plagiarism — and technology is giving students even more ways to cheat nowadays.
For complete story click on the URL below:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/print?id=132376
Please read your syllabus. There is ZERO tolerance for cheating in all of my classes.
Mr. Bisson
Last updated 10 August 2008
Some more interesting articles regarding the consequences of plagiarism.
Three final words:
Don't do it!!