Busting plagiarism
From Iskomunidad
Workshop
- Description: faculty workshop on intellectual dishonesty
- 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
- Workshop schedule and venue: Monday, 27 Sept 2010, 2-5pm, DILC
- Workshop participants: UPD faculty
- Topics
- Definitional and Legal Issues (45 mins) - elements of plagiarism, examples from different domains
- Pedagogical Prevention of Plagiarism (45 mins) - steps teachers can do to help prevent plagiarism in class
- Tools Available and Methodological Issues in Busting Plagiarism (45 mins) - use of certain tools to detect and substantiate instances of plagiarism
Related Issues
- Collaboration. "Real world" jobs require people to work together. Shouldn't students start "collaborating" in school? How or when does collaboration become "cheating"?
- Knowledge and skills assessment. Which methods of assessment discourage cheating? Are exams, term papers effective in the assessment of students' knowledge?
- Intellectual dishonesty and licenses (copyright, Creative Commons, open source). Certain licenses encourage "copying" but certainly not cheating.
- 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
- 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