Busting plagiarism

Workshop

• Description: This workshop for the UP faculty examines the pedagogical issues involved in plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. Faculty participants will learn to detect plagiarism with the aid of electronic tools and know the legal basis for busting plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. This workshop will be streamed live to other UP constituent universities.
  
  
• Objectives
  • examine the pedagogical issues involved in plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty
  • learn to detect plagiarism with the aid of electronic tools
  • know the legal basis for busting plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty.
    
    
• Methodology: panel discussion from different fields; use of detection tools
  
  
• Stream and Feedback
  • Stream: DILC Stream at dilc.upd.edu.ph/stream/ using PREGINET server
  • Feedback: DILC Webchat
  • Webcast Advisory

• Program (Monday, 27 Sept 2010, 2-5pm, DILC)

TIME	TOPIC	RESOURCE SPEAKER
2:00-2:45pm	Definitional and Legal Issues: Elements of plagiarism, examples from different domains (slides in pdf)	Vyva Aguirre Dean, School of Library and Information Studies
2:45-3:30pm	Pedagogical Prevention of Plagiarism: Steps teachers can do to help prevent plagiarism in class (slides in pdf)	Dina Ocampo Dean, College of Education
3:30-3:45pm	Break / Intermission	NIMBB Ensemble (aka "Error Prone") - string trio
3:45-4:30pm	Tools Available and Methodological Issues in Busting Plagiarism: Use of certain tools to detect and substantiate instances of plagiarism (slides in pdf)	Cedric Festin Associate Professor, Computer Science
4:30-5:00pm	Open Forum / Demo

• Workshop participants: UPD faculty (residential) and remote viewers (from UP Manila, UP Visayas and those on Malaysian Research & Education Network (MYREN), Indonesian Higher Education Network (Inherent Dikti) and other CONNECT-Asia partners

• Pre-Workshop Assignment for Residential Participants
  • What are your expectations from the workshop?
  • Please formulate 3 questions that you want the resource persons to address.
  • If you got hold of materials that you think are plagiarized, please remove personal identifiers and send these materials to us (dilc@up.edu.ph). We may use them for instructional purposes.
  • Read the Suggested Readings below.
    

Related Issues

1. Collaboration. "Real world" jobs require people to work together. Shouldn't students start "collaborating" in school? How or when does collaboration become "cheating"?
2. Knowledge and skills assessment. Which methods of assessment discourage cheating? Are exams, term papers effective in the assessment of students' knowledge?
3. Intellectual dishonesty and licenses (copyright, Creative Commons, open source). Certain licenses encourage "copying" but certainly not cheating.
4. What courses of action at various levels (department, college, university) are due to address plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty?

Suggested Readings

• 12.1. "Student Conduct and Discipline," UP Diliman Faculty Manual. Cf. relevant provisions from Draft 2010 Code of Student Conduct for the University of the Philippines Diliman
• Why Computer Science Students Cheat
• Head and Eisenberg, "How today's college students use Wikipedia for course-related research"
• Jason Johnson, "Cut-and-Paste Is a Skill, Too," Washington Post, 25 March 2007
• Jonathan Lethem, "The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism," Harper's, Feb 2007
• The Open University's approach to plagiarism
• How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play
• To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery

Post-Workshop Activities

• iskwiki on "Recommendations on University Action to Address Plagiarism and Intellectual Dishonesty"
• domain-specific training workshops?

Links

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Paper Rater

See Also

• Other Workshop Suggestions