Claudio Andrade
03/27/2021 3:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/27/2021 3:58 PM
More than half of a total of 103 students of the career of Psychology of the University of Comahue (UNCo) did
"copy" and "paste"
, taking the answers directly from pages found in Google,
during an exam
of the chair of Biology Human with virtual mode.
The authorities announced that the first-year students who copied and pasted the answers
were disapproved but will not receive sanctions
.
In addition, they will be able to appear at the new exam table, reported from the university.
The situation generated surprise and scandal within the study center, because there is no history of an event of these dimensions.
The students went to Google to find the answers.
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The examination in question was taken in the virtual modality in line with the new sanitary measures due to the coronavirus.
So despite the control through the camera made by the teachers, the students managed to
search for the answers on Google
without being detected.
The fact that 52 out of 103 students did not hesitate to go to the famous search engine to respond is mentioned in a circular prepared by the academic secretary of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the UNCo, Fabiola Etchemaite.
"211 students enrolled at the exam table on March 11, but
only 103 showed up
. It was a synchronous two-hour written exam with an open camera, scheduled with delivery of tasks through the Pedco platform (in reference to the virtual platform used by the university) ", indicates Etchemaite's note.
The Faculty of Psychology of the University of Comahue, in Cipolletti.
Due to the coronavirus, the exam was being taken with the virtual modality.
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"When conducting the evaluation, the teachers detected that 52 writings had
serious copying or plagiarism situations
easily detectable through Google," he adds.
In subsequent statements, Etchemaite detailed the modality.
"
Entire paragraphs
taken without any type of citation or reference from Internet pages appear," the academic official told Universidad CALF radio.
"It is not difficult to detect for a teacher who knows the biography. When he meets his students, one quickly realizes that it is not an autonomous writing that they are presenting," he continued.
The chair chose to suspend the next table, which was to be the 26th, which will have a new date designated in the coming weeks.
Nor will there be punishment
for those who appealed to "copy paste".
"Disapproving and having put yourself in public discussion seems to me that it is enough to learn," stressed the academic secretary.
Copy-paste.
The resource used by 52 psychology students to answer the answers to a test.
"The students who cheated were disapproved, and the rest passed," Etchemaite explained.
"There are nine people in charge of the chair and it is a complex situation to be controlling mass examinations, where
hundreds of cameras
must be observed
simultaneously
. The teachers are overloaded with work," Etchemaite explained to La Mañana de Cipolletti.
NS
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