plagiarismtest.org
Co-authors of this website are Dr. Cathy Decker and Dr. Curt Burgess. Extensive help in software and web design has been given by various students of Dr. Burgess: Dr. Kevin Lund wrote the test grading software for the original web page used in Dr. Burgess' psychology classes and Dr. Decker's English classes. Cathy Decker and Curt Burgess, with helpful advice from Jon Willits, created the current web site. Alex Hatzopoulos is a student in the Computational Cogntion Lab and was responsible for writing the previous version of the site, and Jason Scheirer completely overhauled the testing and database management code.
We encourage anyone who would find plagiarismtest.org useful to link to it. If you do, we would appreciate your letting us know. This web site is a work in progress. If you have ideas, comments, suggestions, please let us know. We hope the site can become a widely used resource for promoting academic integrity. We have a variety of goals for the web site including a broader variety of test questions for students, a "curriculum" for plagiarism offenders, a plagiarism attitude test, and the software development for faculty users to enroll their classes in plagiarimtest results summary. Anyone who is interested in becoming involved in these activities should contact us.
If you are interested in being part of an email discussion list, please subscribe to our yahoo group. This is a member only group (to avoid spam and to insure high quality discussion). Once your subscribe, your membership will be (most likely!) approved. We hope this email discussion group will become an important resource for faculty, researchers, students, judiciary committee members, and administrators. If you do not want to subscribe for email, you can just read the postings by signing into groups.yahoo.com.
Conference presentations on plagiarismtest.org have been given at the 2003 conference of the Center for Academic Integrity and the 2003 annual conference of the Society for Computers in Psychology. The power point presentations given at the conferences will be posted here soon.
The primary contact for plagiarismtest.org is Dr. Burgess (curt@plagiarismtest.org). Contact Dr. Decker (cathy@plagiarismtest.org)