Two interesting points from the guidance leaflets
1) the suggestion that if a teacher suspects plagiarism they can ask the
student to complete an additional task
2) more interesting - the teacher also has to sign a form that they believe
the student has submitted plagiarised work. It would be interesting to see
if this could be done at a University level!!!
Tracey
--On 06 March 2006 11:50 +0000 "R.E.Stubbings" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> A colleague, Gwyneth Price at the Institute of Education, University of
> London has pointed me to the QCA guide to "Authenticating
> coursework" at http://www.qca.org.uk/592_15524.html also at this site is
> guidance to parents on coursework.
> Ruth
>
> Ruth Stubbings
> Academic Services Manager
> Pilkington Library
> Loughborough University
> Loughborough, LE 1 3TU
> Tel: (01509) 222345
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mainka, Christina"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 6:46 PM
> Subject: Letter to Education Minister
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> This past November I sent a letter to Peter Peacock, our Minister for
> Education and Young People, after watching 3 out of my 4 children in
> primary and secondary school "go to the internet and find and report"
> X,Y, and Z just one too many times. I find it hard to control my emotions
> coming home from a HE institution where academics struggle to find the
> time to address increasing cases of plagiarism, to school children
> indiscriminantly copying words from a webpage. They doubt my sanity when
> I ask them to cross out, rewrite and reference properly, assuring that
> this is not what the teachers want. I am stubborn by nature and as anyone
> can imagine I am this household's least popular member to date.
>
> I decided to ask our Minister when he thought it might be appropriate for
> the country's teachers to themselves become educated in web literacy and
> evaluation skills in order to teach them to their pupils before sending
> them to google. I am still reflecting on the response I received a few
> weeks later from a member of the National Qualifications Team in which I
> was assured that the SQA have taken part in an "informal pilot of
> TurnitinUK" and that an SQA plagiarism guide was made available to
> candidates. In my opinion this isn't sufficient, but I haven't said so
> yet.
>
> In the meantime my 11 year old daughter's friend beamed at us last week
> showing off her first prize for an essay about a famous Scott, which she
> freely admitted having copy-pasted straight from the web. She shrugged
> off my dropped jaw and proclaimed, "Well, I didn't want to get first
> prize!"
>
> Any advice?
>
> Christina
>
> Christina Mainka, PhD
> Academic Development Adviser Online Learning
> TurnitinUK Administrator
> Educational Development
> Napier University
> Craighouse Campus
> Edinburgh EH10 5LG
>
> Tel. 0131 455 6110
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Plagiarism on behalf of Raeburn, Scott
> Sent: Fri 3/3/2006 3:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Coaching - strong opinion warning.
>
>
> Diane
>
> Your comments about high school are interesting - the approach in schools
> to coursework is a problem. However, there may be help on the way, at
> least for some of us.
>
> 1) In the last couple of months I've seen guidelines for Scottish high
> schools from the SQA (sort of exam board) which discuss plagiarism, etc.
> in coursework for 4th+ year pupils (including advice to parents!).
>
> 2) This week my granddaughter (age 9 ) in Primary 5 in Falkirk was given
> a 'project' on France. The instructions included "use a computer and the
> Internet, don't copy, use your own words and include a bibliography". The
> teacher will, of course, explain all these ideas.
>
> The 1st seems sensible but is 2) a bit of overkill? When is a good age to
> start all this? Is there anything like this going on in other parts of
> the country?
>
> I suppose it might mean that we'll be alright in about 10 years time!
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Raeburn
> Academic Conduct Officer
> School of Computing
> Napier University
> Merchiston Campus
> Edinburgh EH10 5DT
>
> Tel: +44 (0)131 455 2716
> Fax: +44 (0)131 455 2727
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Diane
> Brewster
> Sent: 03 March 2006 14:34
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Coaching - strong opinion warning.
>
>
>
>
> On 3 Mar 2006, at 09:36, Mike Reddy wrote:
> <snip>
>
>
> Students are only potential cheats, looking for the loop hole, if you
> choose to see them that way.
>
> The attitude to plagiarism, copying and making of learning into an issue
> of offence is one that I am hoping will be the subject of a workshop at
> the next Plagiarism Conference. It needs an open and frank, possibly
> bloody debate. I could be completely wrong. I'd love to know what others
> think and whether they see this as an interesting/important part of the
> problem to discuss.
>>>
>
>
> count me in on that workshop. I think this is absolutely central, the
> more I read about the issue the more my blood boils at times, and the
> more I begin to think Peter Levin has it right about the witch hunt being
> waged against students in some quarters.
>
> Students find the rules about referencing complicated and confusing, in
> the past they only had to worry about these once they reached
> postgraduate level as there was no such thing as coursework - we all sat
> a bunch of 3 hr exams at the end of 3 yrs, swapping each others essays
> for revision purposes was positively encouraged. Now, practically every
> bit of work they produce is formally assessed, not only do they have to
> handle getting to grips with their subject but also the rules of the
> referencing game - and very few of them have been adequately taught to do
> this in high school.
>
> I think the driving analogy is a good one too, and one I have used with
> overseas students in particular - i.e. when you come into a new country
> you can't expect that the rules of the road will be the same as in your
> home country- the academic "rules of the road" in the UK with respect to
> plagiarism and referencing might be different from the ones you are used
> to. Do we extend the analogy and have the tutor as driving instructor? if
> so then we have a responsibility to ensure that the students *know* there
> is a highway code which will be examined as well as their ability to
> drive the car.... a lot of academics seem to be seeing themselves in the
> role of traffic police...
>
> Diane
>
> Diane Brewster
> Research Fellow
> IDEAS Lab
> Dept Informatics
> University of Sussex
> Falmer
> Brighton BN19QH
>
> http://ideas.fcs.sussex.ac.uk/~D.M.Brewster/
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