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Dear List, Following last week's Gateshead conference, I'm working on a piece about the pressure to move away from traditional assessment like essays/dissertations in order to "design out" the potential/temptation for plagiarism. I'd welcome thoughts/contributions from the list. It seems to me that there is concern among this community that lazy thinking/traditionalism is perpetuating assessment techniques that are out of date, no longer fit for purpose and in some cases actively invite the student to plagiarise. Is that a fair assessment? I'd particularly like thoughts on Jude Caroll's line about making rather than discussing. Jude, perhaps you can explain to me directly? And also -- are there any institutional moves to reform assessment methods in this way, or is there still general resistance/apathy? Thanks in advance for any assistance, Phil Baty Chief Reporter The Times Higher Education Supplement 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1W 1BX Tel: 020 7782 3298 Fax: 020 7782 3300 -----Original Message----- From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Macdonald, Ranald F Sent: 23 June 2006 11:20 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Teaching remission for Academic Conduct Officers? Denize Working with Jude Carroll a couple of years ago we came up with a system of Academic Conduct Panels where the Chairs are often the Head of Quality in the Faculties. There are also Secretaries to the panels. They are supported by my unit, the Learning and Teaching Institute, and we have twice-yearly meetings to discuss statistics, case studies and try to work out why there might be difference between Faculties. Our main concern is to ensure consistency and fairness across the University. An annual report is fed back to the Academic Development Committee and we have amended our regulations as a result of the experience to recognise that many (but not all) first year students do not have the necessary skills and understanding of the appropriate conventions. Our whole emphasis is on Academic Integrity with leaflets distributed to staff and students and a dedicated website. We are totally committed to seeing the solution as better academic practice and not police and punish. Some students will cheat and we have the appropriately robust regulations to deal with them. However, our main emphasis is on staff providing the appropriate information and designing it out of assessment as far as possible and that students have the necessary skills and understanding. Hope that helps Ranald ************************ Professor Ranald Macdonald Head of Academic Practice Learning and Teaching Institute Sheffield Hallam University Tel: 0114 225 4759 email: [log in to unmask] ************************ -----Original Message----- From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mcintyre D A (CELT) Sent: 23 June 2006 10:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Teaching remission for Academic Conduct Officers? I'm really grateful for that, Suzanne, thanks very much. I'm quite keen for my Uni to at least consider it but I'm likely to need the backup of comments such as yours to do it! If I have enough responses to put together, I'll put up a generalised response. Thanks again. Regards Denize. -----Original Message----- From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Suzanne Ryan Sent: 23 June 2006 10:06 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Teaching remission for Academic Conduct Officers? Dear Denize, We use it at the University of Newcastle Australia and it, along with a raft of other measure, has made a major difference to consciousness of academic integrity among both academics and students. At first all SACOs were allocated the equivalent of one day per week but over time we have realised that for some it is not a big job, ie not much business especially in sciences and law and medicine, while for others, like my graduate school of business with offshore and online courses it is worth two days per week. S Suzanne Ryan Teaching, Learning and Quality Coordinator Newcastle Graduate School of Business University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Phone +61 2 49 216015 Fax +61 2 49 217398 www.gsb.newcastle.edu.au >>> [log in to unmask] 23/06/06 7:01 PM >>> Dear All Following on from something I learned at the Newcastle Conference this week, we don't currently use a system of Academic Conduct Officers and I'd like to do a quick tour through the pros and cons of it all. If any colleagues has strong opinions for the system one way or the other, I'd be really glad of an e-mail. In particular, would you mind letting me know what kind of remission on teaching hours the role attracts? I will obviously anonymise this and be happy to provide some concise collated info to anyone who would like to see it. 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