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Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating

High-tech testing centers and anti-plagiarism software are some of the new tools professors are trying

By Kim Clark

Posted October 3, 2008

A testing center at Penn State uses high-tech surveillance to watch for student cheating. (Jim Lo Scalzo for USN&WR)

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