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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
E-texts in lower grades school would incite students to 'cut and paste' much too eagerly. I know it to be a major part of the decision to slow it's willfull inception in curriculae. Just imagine the work involved for teachers in sorting out what's original from what was copied. It is already a great task to sort through what is now hand written.
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But it's quite easy to check a report against published material looking for plagiarized content, if the assignment is submitted electronically. There are tools that will do this for the teacher, and cite where the content is from. If the students know these tools will be used, they will know they can't get away with cut and paste.
I don't think the whole answer is in-class supervised tests. Some kinds of learning can only be assessed with long-term projects.