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Copy That?, Mark Y. Herring
Copy That?, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
Google Books won another (and possibly the last?) round against the copyright drudges, or so we are to believe. Is anyone surprised? I know I’m not. In the latest chapter, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in early October that Google’s book-scanning project is a-ok, copacetic, fine with them, it doesn’t matter — you get the point. The “creators” in this case, authors under the auspices of the Authors Guild to those of us who work around books, will appeal again, but it appears at this point that they are spitting in the wind.
"I Second That Emotion": Minding How Plagiarism Feels, Ann E. Biswas
"I Second That Emotion": Minding How Plagiarism Feels, Ann E. Biswas
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
It stands to reason that when writing teachers believe their students have plagiarized, they will experience strong emotions that impact their relationships with students, their pedagogy, and their sense of professional identity. Far from being a threat to reason, understanding and acknowledging writing teachers’ emotional responses to plagiarism can lead to a deeper wisdom of its true impact. By examining the literature on emotion from psychology, sociology, education, and writing studies as well as findings from a pilot study of writing teachers’ emotional responses to plagiarism, this article argues that the work involved in managing the emotions of plagiarism reflects …
Foregrounding The Research Log In Information Literacy Instruction, Louise R. Fluk
Foregrounding The Research Log In Information Literacy Instruction, Louise R. Fluk
Publications and Research
Updating an earlier study, this article reviews the literature of information literacy (IL) instruction since 2008 for empirical evidence of the value of research logs or research journals for effective pedagogy, assessment, and prevention of plagiarism in IL instruction at the college level. The review reveals a mismatch between the acknowledged theoretical and practical value of research log assignments and the mixed advocacy for them in the literature. The article further analyzes the literature for the drawbacks of research log assignments and points toward ways of mitigating these drawbacks.
Cheating Or Coincidence? Statistical Method Employing The Principle Of Maximum Entropy For Judging Whether A Student Has Committed Plagiarism, Mark P. Silverman
Cheating Or Coincidence? Statistical Method Employing The Principle Of Maximum Entropy For Judging Whether A Student Has Committed Plagiarism, Mark P. Silverman
Faculty Scholarship
Elements of correspondence (“coincidences”) between a student’s solutions to an assigned set of quantitative problems and the solutions manual for the course textbook may suggest that the student copied the work from an illicit source. Plagiarism of this kind, which occurs primarily in fields such as the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, is often difficult to establish. This paper derives an expression for the probability that alleged coincidences in a student’s paper could be attributable to pure chance. The analysis employs the Principle of Maximum Entropy (PME), which, mathematically, is a variational procedure requiring maximization of the Shannon-Jaynes entropy function …
Self-Assessment Of The Use Of Plagiarism Avoiding Techniques To Create Ethical Scholarship Among Research Students, Ahsan Ullah
Self-Assessment Of The Use Of Plagiarism Avoiding Techniques To Create Ethical Scholarship Among Research Students, Ahsan Ullah
Ahsan Ullah
The use of plagiarism avoiding techniques can be helpful to maintain academic integrity, a better learning environment and intellectual honesty. This explored the use of plagiarism avoiding techniques for creating ethical scholarship among research students. It also measured the association between the frequency of using plagiarism avoiding techniques and the satisfaction about knowledge of plagiarism. Data were collected from seven universities through an online self-structured questionnaire. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was used to explore the variance. The association between the frequency of using plagiarism avoiding techniques and satisfaction about knowledge of plagiarism was indicated. Differences were also found on the …
Measuring Attitudes Toward Plagiarism: Issues And Psychometric Solutions, John F. Ehrich, Steven J. Howard, Jim S. Tognolini, Sahar Bokosmaty
Measuring Attitudes Toward Plagiarism: Issues And Psychometric Solutions, John F. Ehrich, Steven J. Howard, Jim S. Tognolini, Sahar Bokosmaty
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of failing to psychometrically test questionnaire instruments when measuring university students' attitudes towards plagiarism. These issues are highlighted by a psychometric evaluation of a commonly used (but previously untested) plagiarism attitudinal scale. Design/methodology/approach - The importance of psychometric testing is shown through an analysis of a commonly used scale using modern techniques (e.g. Rasch analysis) on 131 undergraduate education students at an Australian university. Findings - Psychometric analysis revealed the scale to be unreliable in its present form. However, when reduced to an eight-item subscale it became marginally …