Re:Cybercheat? (Score 2)

The percentages in their study are also higher for engineering and mathematics students.

Another particularly irritating caveat of this study is that they assign any "copying from the internet" to "cybercheating."

1) It is unclear whether in whatever questionnaire that they used whether the adequately distinguished between "copying a few lines with attribution" vs "copying a few lines without attribution."

2) In engineering and mathematics Wikipedia, Planetmath, Physics forums, etc. are usually useful and correct for undergraduate topics. In these disciplines, for an equation, like Newton's method, there really is only one way (or maybe a few ways) of concisely writing down the equation. If a math or engineering student copied an equation from Wikipedia to use on their homework, this study would label that "cybercheating," which is absolutely ridiculous!