Posts Tagged ‘plagiarism’
November 28 - The Writing Process: Step-by-Step Approach Curbs Plagiarism, Helps Students Build Confidence in Their Writing Ability
By: Carmen Hamlin in Effective Teaching Strategies
I’ve long been an advocate of student-centered learning and approaching material from a variety of perspectives. We hear so many buzzwords describing the ways we should teach or the ways our students learn, and we deal increasingly with issues of plagiarism and academic dishonesty. In a classroom of adult learners who frequently view themselves as consumers, we balance the need to meet their demands with the need for them to meet ours. Getting back to the basics can intrinsically incorporate kinesthetic, collaborative learning and nearly eliminate plagiarism while promoting critical thinking.
June 13 - Tips for Preventing Plagiarism among College Students
By: Mary Bart in Instructional Design
For some students, a writing assignment takes weeks of research, writing and revisions. For others, the ingredients are more along the lines of Google, CTRL+C and CTRL+V. And for others still, the assignment is nothing more than a transaction with an online essay mill.
May 17 - Turnitin Study Examines ‘Copy and Paste’ Plagiarism
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
When students need to write a paper, where do they go? A study released last month on plagiarism found that social and user-generated websites are the most popular resources, followed by academic and homework-related sites. Cheat sites and paper mills comprised less than 15 percent of the total resources used and showed the most significant decline over the period examined.
April 7 - How to Detect and Prevent Plagiarism in the Online Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
This seminar provides a blueprint for preventing and detecting plagiarism in the online classroom whether it’s “copy and paste” plagiarism or material that is written for students by paper mills.
September 29 - Are You Committing Plagiarism? Top Five Overlooked Citations to Add to Your Course Materials
By: Miki Crawford, PhD in Instructional Design
Although we strive to uphold academic integrity, we may unknowingly be committing plagiarism. As we know (and tell our students) plagiarism is copying from a source verbatim, but it is even more than that. According to Reference.com, “plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”
May 7 - Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
Online education didn’t invent cheating, but it does present unique challenges. This 20-page report provides proactive ways for meeting these challenges head on.
December 21 - Academic Integrity: Creating Institutional Policies to Curb Student Cheating
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Cheating is not a new problem for colleges, but the Internet and other technologies have increased opportunities for cheating, making it more tempting to try and easier to pull off than ever before.
December 8 - Beyond the Prohibitions: Teaching Students not to Plagiarize
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching Professor Blog
“I don’t think teachers teach it well enough. I don’t think they teach well enough citing, and what to do, and how to take the words, and how many words you can take without being considered plagiarism. They just say, ‘Don’t plagiarize.’ But they never tell you what to do to not plagiarize.” (p. 655)
October 7 - Tips to Reduce Cheating in the College Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
In CHEATING IN SCHOOL: What We Know and What We Can Do, (Wiley-Blackwell) authors Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, and Tricia Bertram Gallant provide a comprehensive look at the cheating phenomenon from primary through graduate school. In an email interview with Faculty Focus, the authors discuss academic integrity issues in higher education specifically, including steps that can be taken at the institutional level as well as in individual classrooms.
September 18 - Helping Students Learn from Ethical Failures
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Academic dishonesty is nothing new. It is as endemic to education as crime is to society. But today, cheating seems to be moving from an unfortunate and relatively rare occurrence to standard operating procedure for students. This seminar will give you proactive strategies for dealing with academic integrity issues on your campus.
Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D., is the academic integrity coordinator at the University of California, San Diego, and is the current chair for the Center for Academic Integrity's Advisory Council. Bertram Gallant has also been active with the Center for Academic Integrity since 2002. Bertram Gallant has written a book, Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative (Jossey-Bass), and published articles on academic integrity in The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, the Journal of Library Administration, and the NASPA Journal. She has also authored several book chapters on academic integrity, ethics, and higher education leadership and occasionally teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in leadership and higher education administration. 