Anxious not to be guilty of “policing,” many faculty work hard to prevent academic dishonesty by focusing on student motivation (making learning fun!), feelings (never prompt anxiety!), and (especially for professors who believe themselves to be au courant in terms of pedagogy) “scaffolding” assignments to help lead students through their various “zones of proximal development.” And yet students still cheat and plagiarize, and in numbers that have only increased since the introduction of generative AI.
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