El Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) implementó una estrategia cibernética para prevenir el plagio de información mediante software.
El Porvenir/ Especial.-El Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) implemented a strategy to promote cyber academic honesty, plagiarism prevention information and improve study habits in students.
The private university said that through the special software "Safe Assign" enable the institution to compare the contents of digital documents from academic databases and the Internet, keeping copies of information.
also compares the work of students from other universities that use the same system and self-generated database of student work Tecnológico de Monterrey.
The project manager the Academic Vice, Jorge Salinas Girodengo, said "it is a tool that basically works as a detector of plagiarism."
"We believe that this can contribute to the formation of people that mark on our mission, focusing on the promotion of positive values \u200b\u200bin students and encourage them to behave ethically in the academic and professional," added the manager.
The text states that the Safe Assign an algorithm based on text comparison only able to detect exact and approximate similarities between the current document and material in the database.
also determines the percentage of similarity and provides a report of authenticity showing the origin of the lines of text that could come from other documents. "Based on this report, the teacher can determine the authenticity of the document delivered by the student," he says.
relates that the natives digital are young people born with digital technology and are accustomed to using electronic information sources and notes that a large percentage of these young people live with the culture of the copy-paste , many Sometimes using the ideas of others in their school work without proper citation of sources consulted.
"More than a tool to identify plagiarism, the institution seeks through Safe Assign teach and encourage critical thinking in students and encourage them to build the knowledge and respect for intellectual property, "he says.
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