[tips] p...@cc PsyChat with David Myers

[Frantz, Sue]

I hope you'll be able to join us!

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Participate in a p...@cc PsyChat!
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professional development opportunity for teachers of psychology.
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Re: [tips] more detective work with Word?

[Jim Clark]

Hi

I doubt that there is a technical solution to the problem of students
buying papers, except perhaps for the less alert students and services. 
Here is one site that provides free software to change time and date
information.

http://www.smartcode.com/downloads/change-created-date-word.html 

I'm sure there are others.  And I suspect that the commercial companies
have ways to implant whatever "history" the buyer wants embedded into
the file.

Take care
Jim

James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
204-786-9757
204-774-4134 Fax
j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca

>>> Claudia Stanny  06-Dec-10 11:37 AM >>>
I do a lot of collaborative writing these days and we have a habit of
saving
versions with new draft dates in the file name.  I find that these
various
new files don't seem to carry the older edit/creation dates.  So there
is a
possibility that a student could avoid detection by saving the file on
his/her computer with a new file name.

Perhaps the folks in computer science who are interested in forensic
computing can answer questions about hidden codes.  It would be
interesting
to know whether these are created and how they could be accessed.



Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D.
Director
Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Associate Professor
School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514 * 5751

Phone:   (850) 857-6355 or  473-7435

csta...@uwf.edu 

CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ 
Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm 



On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM,  wrote:

>
>
>  Indeed, I could have sworn that this tool allowed its user to see
the
> hidden data. At least the XP version does not.
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Annette Taylor" 
> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <
> tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu>
>   Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 2:43:22 PM
> Subject: RE: [tips] more detective work with Word?
>
>
>
>  Well, this is good if you are a student and want to submit a paper
and
> want to strip it of all identifying information, but it doesn't tell
you how
> to read any unstripped hidden information. I have asked our IT folks
to
> investigate this for me and will get back to you all if I learn
anything
> practical!
>
> OTOH I try to pick topics that are not readily available for easy
> purchase, i.e., a student would have to pay for a custom written
paper and
> could not just buy one off the shelf, so to speak. In addition my
studnets have
> to hand in all of their supporting references (i.e., copies of the
papers
> cited throughout the paper with relevant passages annotated) and a
> peer-reviewed draft with feedback on it with the final showing the
changes
> that were made.
>
> Annette
>
>  Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
> Professor, Psychological Sciences
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> tay...@sandiego.edu 
>
>  --
> *From:* roig-rear...@comcast.net [roig-rear...@comcast.net] 
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:35 AM
> *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> *Subject:* Re: [tips] more detective work with Word?
>
>
>
>  Beth, this link provides useful information, especially if you use
Office
> 2007,
>
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-from-office-documents-HA010037593.aspx#BM1.
> For MS Word 2003 go to:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=144E54ED-D43E-42CA-BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en.
> I am also aware of commercial software designed to analyze documents,
but
> don't know anything about those products.
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Beth Benoit" 
> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <
> tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 11:47:19 AM
> Subject: [tips] more detective work with Word?
>
>
> I'm deeply unsettled at this time of year by the information about
> "contract cheating" (buying term papers online) and how flagrant it
is.
>  Sometimes you are positive that a student didn't write the submitted
paper
> (how can a D student, who can barely complete a sentence in an essay
> question, submit a strongly written research paper?) but we need more
ways
> to prove it.  I'm sure the essay companies do their best to help the
> students not get caught.  (I've seen some that offer an essay written
to a
> grade specification, so that a C student will get a paper that's not
very
> well-written and with some words spelled incorrectly.  *Sigh.*)
>
> Does anyone know of any further little tricks to use with Word that
can
> help us find these contract cheaters?  I'd be particularly interested
to
> know if there's a way to find out the TOTAL amount of time a student
has
> spent on "writing" a paper - such as when the student began work on
the
> paper.  For example, if the student bought the paper from a term
paper site,
> I'd exp

Re: [tips] more detective work with Word?

[Claudia Stanny]

I do a lot of collaborative writing these days and we have a habit of saving
versions with new draft dates in the file name.  I find that these various
new files don't seem to carry the older edit/creation dates.  So there is a
possibility that a student could avoid detection by saving the file on
his/her computer with a new file name.

Perhaps the folks in computer science who are interested in forensic
computing can answer questions about hidden codes.  It would be interesting
to know whether these are created and how they could be accessed.



Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D.
Director
Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Associate Professor
School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514 – 5751

Phone:   (850) 857-6355 or  473-7435

csta...@uwf.edu

CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/
Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm



On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM,  wrote:

>
>
>  Indeed, I could have sworn that this tool allowed its user to see the
> hidden data. At least the XP version does not.
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Annette Taylor" 
> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <
> tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu>
>   Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 2:43:22 PM
> Subject: RE: [tips] more detective work with Word?
>
>
>
>  Well, this is good if you are a student and want to submit a paper and
> want to strip it of all identifying information, but it doesn't tell you how
> to read any unstripped hidden information. I have asked our IT folks to
> investigate this for me and will get back to you all if I learn anything
> practical!
>
> OTOH I try to pick topics that are not readily available for easy
> purchase, i.e., a student would have to pay for a custom written paper and
> could not just buy one off the shelf, so to speak. In addition my studnets 
> have
> to hand in all of their supporting references (i.e., copies of the papers
> cited throughout the paper with relevant passages annotated) and a
> peer-reviewed draft with feedback on it with the final showing the changes
> that were made.
>
> Annette
>
>  Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
> Professor, Psychological Sciences
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> tay...@sandiego.edu
>
>  --
> *From:* roig-rear...@comcast.net [roig-rear...@comcast.net]
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:35 AM
> *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> *Subject:* Re: [tips] more detective work with Word?
>
>
>
>  Beth, this link provides useful information, especially if you use Office
> 2007,
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-from-office-documents-HA010037593.aspx#BM1.
> For MS Word 2003 go to:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=144E54ED-D43E-42CA-BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en.
> I am also aware of commercial software designed to analyze documents, but
> don't know anything about those products.
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Beth Benoit" 
> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <
> tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 11:47:19 AM
> Subject: [tips] more detective work with Word?
>
>
> I'm deeply unsettled at this time of year by the information about
> "contract cheating" (buying term papers online) and how flagrant it is.
>  Sometimes you are positive that a student didn't write the submitted paper
> (how can a D student, who can barely complete a sentence in an essay
> question, submit a strongly written research paper?) but we need more ways
> to prove it.  I'm sure the essay companies do their best to help the
> students not get caught.  (I've seen some that offer an essay written to a
> grade specification, so that a C student will get a paper that's not very
> well-written and with some words spelled incorrectly.  *Sigh.*)
>
> Does anyone know of any further little tricks to use with Word that can
> help us find these contract cheaters?  I'd be particularly interested to
> know if there's a way to find out the TOTAL amount of time a student has
> spent on "writing" a paper - such as when the student began work on the
> paper.  For example, if the student bought the paper from a term paper site,
> I'd expect that only a few minutes would be spent opening it up into a new
> document page, maybe adding his/her own name, etc.
>
> The information that I posted yesterday does tell the "last" time it was
> edited, and how much time was spent and how many "edits" were made.  But
> this doesn't help if, say, the student worked on it for a week altogether,
> saved it, and then opened it one final time, etc.  Then it might look like
> only few minutes were spent, which of course is very suspicious, but perhaps
> incorrectly so.
>
> Some of the tell-tale signs I've been using, as I described in yesterday'

RE: [tips] more detective work with Word?

[Marc Carter]

I have the luxury of relatively small (ca 20 student-) classes, but what I do 
is work with each student from the start: I work to help them develop 
hypothesis, I get regular submitted work on their progress (summaries of 
articles, annotated bibs) and do a couple drafts (at least) of each paper, 
several of these steps are in conference, and I get to quiz the student on what 
they know about their topic.  I think this does a lot to discourage outright 
buying of a paper, but I'm not sure that everyone can do that.

It doesn't avoid the students plagiarizing parts of the paper from the research 
articles, but it certainly makes it more difficult for them to just buy 
something.

m


--
Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
--




From: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:47 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] more detective work with Word?




I'm deeply unsettled at this time of year by the information about "contract 
cheating" (buying term papers online) and how flagrant it is.  Sometimes you 
are positive that a student didn't write the submitted paper (how can a D 
student, who can barely complete a sentence in an essay question, submit a 
strongly written research paper?) but we need more ways to prove it.  I'm sure 
the essay companies do their best to help the students not get caught.  (I've 
seen some that offer an essay written to a grade specification, so that a C 
student will get a paper that's not very well-written and with some words 
spelled incorrectly.  Sigh.)

Does anyone know of any further little tricks to use with Word that can help us 
find these contract cheaters?  I'd be particularly interested to know if 
there's a way to find out the TOTAL amount of time a student has spent on 
"writing" a paper - such as when the student began work on the paper.  For 
example, if the student bought the paper from a term paper site, I'd expect 
that only a few minutes would be spent opening it up into a new document page, 
maybe adding his/her own name, etc.

The information that I posted yesterday does tell the "last" time it was 
edited, and how much time was spent and how many "edits" were made.  But this 
doesn't help if, say, the student worked on it for a week altogether, saved it, 
and then opened it one final time, etc.  Then it might look like only few 
minutes were spent, which of course is very suspicious, but perhaps incorrectly 
so.

Some of the tell-tale signs I've been using, as I described in yesterday's 
post, with Leah Adams-Curtis' tips, are in the Prepare->Properties link, which 
reveals the author's/owner's name.  MOST of the time, this should be the 
student's name, but what if he/she is using someone else's computer to write 
the paper?  That, in itself, shouldn't be incriminating.  The other sign is 
under the pull-down menu for Document Properties->Advanced->Statistics, which 
reveals the editing information described above.

But I KNOW that legal departments have other tricks they use to uncover 
"secret" notations that aren't intended to show up in the final documents.  
Anybody know what they might be, or any other detective tricks?

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire


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[tips] Topic for class discussion?

[Christopher D. Green]

In the latest episode of the popular science radio show StarTalk, 
astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson defines science as "Do whatever it 
takes to not fool yourself. Period."

Discuss.
The full episode can be found at:
http://startalkradio.net/2010/12/05/an-aliens-guide-to-earth?xrs=synd_facebook 

Unfortunately, there is no time index on the player, so I can't give you 
an exact reference. It is, by my estimate, about 40% of the way into the 
episode, in the course of an interview with Jon Stewart).

Chris
-- 

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Department of Psychology
York University
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[tips] custom made papers experiment/demonstration

[roig-reardon]

Hi everyone, as the topic of custom-made papers has been discussed on TIPS, I 
post the following message with permission of the author, to see if anyone is 
interested in taking part in this experiment/demonstration. If any of you are 
interested, please respond to Christine directly. 

Thanks. 

Miguel 

 

Hi Miguel, 

Thanks again for your time and your help -- I look forward to meeting you in 
person. 

A quick summary of our conversation -- 

ABC's World News and Nightline are looking into cheating on American campuses, 
coming off of the recent "Shadow Scholar" article published in the Chronicle of 
Higher Education. As part of our piece, we'd like to get together perhaps 4 or 
5 professors working in (roughly) the same field to participate in a modest 
experiment. We'd like to solicit a made-to-order essay from an online paper 
company, and, along with perhaps 4 actual essays on the same topic, ask the 
professors to take a look and see whether it's easy or difficult to recognize 
the "fake" paper. We think it'd be an interesting exercise, raising the 
question of whether these services are really as sophisticated and undetectable 
as the article in the Chronicle seems to suggest, or whether they are actually 
easy to spot. 

If it would be possible for you to help us put together a group of perhaps 4 or 
5 educators around the country in your field who might be interested in 
participating in this, that would be great. We're hoping to do this fairly 
quickly -- sometime in the next few days. And if you could, please ask your 
colleagues to be discreet about this, as we don't want the word to get out 
about our "investigation" until we actually go to air next week. 

Thanks so much in advance for your help. I look forward to hearing from you. 

All best, 
Christine 

Christine Brouwer | ABC News | World News with Diane Sawyer | (212) 456-3698 
(o) | (347) 366-2862 (c) | christine.c.brou...@abc.com 




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Re: [tips] Early Seasons Greetings!

[Michael Smith]

Thank you for the post David.

Yes it would be good if people were "trying to reclaim the altruistic
spirit of the original Santa
Claus" (Saint Nicholas).

I will be sure to visit her site.

 :-)

--Mike

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM, David Myers  wrote:
>
>
> What fun to return from delivering St. Nicholas Eve gifts to a few family
> and friends and to find Mike, Carol, and John's postings about St. Nicholas
> Feast Day.  I live in Holland, Michigan--a Dutch heritage (though now
> diverse) community that many years ago introduced my wife and I to St.
> Nicholas, who is celebrated in the Netherlands as Sinterklaas.  This
> weekend, several hundred children here in Holland, MI, greeted the arrival
> of St. Nicholas in a main street parade.  Our living here also led my wife,
> Carol, to create a website devoted to St. Nicholas (which, if history
> repeats itself, will have more than 100,000 visitors today and tomorrow).
>
> To make this entry pertinent to psychology, the spirit of St. Nicholas (and
> of those trying to reclaim the altruistic spirit of the original Santa
> Claus) was nicely captured in a 2009 European Journal of Social Psychology
> study of the priming of altruism among Dutch children.  Tilburg University
> social psychologist Diederik Stapel and his colleagues offer this synopsis,
> from their discussion section:
>
> One may think that traditions like the Dutch Saint Nicholas tradition makes
> children materialistic, greedy, and less likely to share with others as they
> are spoiled with gifts and candy.  However, our results clearly show that
> children in The Netherlands still associate Saint Nicholas with "sharing
> with others" . . . .
>
>
>
> Significant others, such as family members, friends, and Saint Nicholas, are
> pre-eminently the people that influence us and that teach us what is good,
> and what is bad, and what the social norms are in our society. . . . Give
> Dutch children a coloring picture depicting the attributes of Saint Nicholas
> (a book, miter, and a staff) and they will give away more of their candy.
>
> J
> Dave Myers
> www.davidmyers.org
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Mike Palij  wrote:
>>
>> December 6 is celebrated among certain groups as St. Nicholas' Feast Day.
>> St. Nicholas lived from 270-347 A.D. and is considered as the basis or
>> precursor to Santa Claus.  For more info about old St. Nick, there is a
>> Wikipedia entry (yadda-yadda); see:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
>>
>> Quoting from the entry:
>> |He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the
>> |shoes of those who left them out for him, and thus became the model
>> |for Santa Claus, whose English name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas.
>>
>> Make sure you check your shoes before you put them on tomorrow.
>>
>> Also, December 19 is observed by some who follow the old (Julian)
>> calendar.
>> Check your shoes then, too.
>>
>> -Mike Palij
>> New York University
>> m...@nyu.edu
>>
>>
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Re: [tips] Early Seasons Greetings!

[John Kulig]

Carol

Thanks for the tip! I haven't seen it yet but will look for it later today.

==
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Director, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
==

- Original Message -
From: "DeVolder Carol L" 
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 8:51:58 PM
Subject: RE: [tips] Early Seasons Greetings!

John--have you read the book _Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy 
Dead_by Peter Manseau? I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned some fascinating 
things about relics and their division amongst various holy places.
Carol




Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology 
St. Ambrose University 
518 West Locust Street 
Davenport, Iowa 52803 

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-Original Message-
From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu]
Sent: Sun 12/5/2010 7:26 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Early Seasons Greetings!
 


Oh yes, that time of year again! Time to again tell my story of the dark side 
of St. Nicolas ... at the first Ecumenical Council in Nicaea in 325 CE, in 
which early Christians debated whether Jesus was mere prophet (the Arius 
"heresy" as it is now called) or something greater, St. Nicholas of Myra, 
Turkey whacked Arius in the face (whether it was a punch or slap is unclear 
...) he was stripped of his position, but was quickly reinstated. I guess when 
argument fails there is always physical persuasion - a reminder that religion 
is not always lovey-dovey. Most of his bones (relics) are still in Italy, but 
Turkey wants them back ... interesting tradition of the Orthodox to preserve 
bones, dividing them up amongst different churches. I did a little bit of 
traveling this weekend, and on the spur of the moment visited an "old calendar" 
church on the north shore of Boston that had bones from over a dozen saints. No 
St. Nicolas if I recall, but there is a small Orthodox church in northern New 
Hampshire that actually has a bone fragment (very small I might add) of St. 
Nicholas on site. 

==
John W. Kulig, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
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- Original Message -
From: "Mike Palij" 
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
Cc: "Mike Palij" 
Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 5:30:54 PM
Subject: [tips] Early Seasons Greetings!

December 6 is celebrated among certain groups as St. Nicholas' Feast Day.
St. Nicholas lived from 270-347 A.D. and is considered as the basis or 
precursor to Santa Claus.  For more info about old St. Nick, there is a 
Wikipedia entry (yadda-yadda); see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas 

Quoting from the entry:
|He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the 
|shoes of those who left them out for him, and thus became the model 
|for Santa Claus, whose English name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas. 

Make sure you check your shoes before you put them on tomorrow.

Also, December 19 is observed by some who follow the old (Julian) calendar.
Check your shoes then, too.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu



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