Plagiarism Differences in High School and College Students A
report released today by the plagiarism-detection tool TurnItIn
confirms what a lot of teachers already know: that students are
copying content from online sources. According to the report,
for both high school and college students, Wikipedia and Yahoo
Answers were the top two most popular sources of lifted copy.
But another interesting fact emerged from the report about the
difference between high school and college students. While 31%
of content matches for high school students came from social and
“content-sharing” sites (like Facebook or Yahoo Answers), just
26% of the matches for college students originated there.
College students were more likely to use content from cheat
sites and paper mills, the report finds: 19.6% of content
matches in college students’ papers came from those sites,
whereas just 14.1% of matches to high school students’ papers.
College students were also more likely to turn to news sites —
16.6% versus 12.3% of college stu