Transcript Dr Erica Morris - Oxford Brookes University

‘Plagiarism today’: current themes
and perspectives
Dr Erica Morris
Senior Adviser
Academic Integrity Service
The Higher Education Academy
Measuring the scale of the
problem
Education and going
online
types of misconduct, policies,
procedures and penalties
academic integrity modules,
learning activities (with textmatching tools)
But in my
discipline
educational
context, subjectspecific academic
integrity issues
Follow the light
holistic approach,
institutional
framework,
promoting academic
integrity
Uncovering
secrets
reasons, student
understandings
and perspectives
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Supporting academic integrity
• Summarising work from last
10 years
• Highlighting key issues
• Case studies: educational
approaches
– Institution
– Programme
– Subject
• Sharing good practice across
higher education
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Policy works
• Reviewing policy to manage
unacceptable academic
practice in higher education
• Previous research and good
practice guidance
• 12 recommendations
• Examples and excerpts from
institutional policies
• Illustrative cases
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‘Plagiarism tomorrow’: emerging
themes, challenges and directions
Dr Erica Morris
Senior Adviser
Academic Integrity Service
The Higher Education Academy
Measuring the scale of the
problem
Education and going
online
types of misconduct, policies,
procedures and penalties
academic integrity modules,
learning activities (with textmatching tools)
But in my
discipline
educational
context, subjectspecific academic
integrity issues
Follow the light
holistic approach,
institutional
framework,
promoting academic
integrity
Uncovering
secrets
reasons, student
understandings
and perspectives
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Measuring the scale of the problem
• Importance of AMBeR project
• Methodological issues
– Self reporting (dis)honest
behaviour
– Variation in terminology
• Patterns: use of assignments
– Frequency and nature of plagiarism
– Student characteristics
– Walker (2010)
• Promote academic integrity
– East (2009)
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Education and going online
• Complex skills
– Research, study, academic
writing
– Web resources, tutorials,
online modules
• Formative assessment
– Students: practise skills
– Text-matching tools
• ‘Avoid’, ‘reduce’ plagiarism
• Evaluation study
– Academic integrity module
– Lack of knowledge: citation
– Belter and du Pre (2009)
University of Aberdeen’s guidance on
plagiarism
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But in my discipline
• Generic and subject-specific
issues
– Group work and collusion
– Data fabrication
• Context of the subject
– Students acquiring knowledge
and skills
• Teaching, learning and
assessment practices
– Authentic assessments
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Follow the light
• Holistic approaches
– Teaching and learning
strategies
– Policies and procedures
– Student learning and
development
– Staff training and
development
East (2009), Macdonald and Carroll (2006),
Park (2004)
• Continuous staff
engagement
• Senior management
• Ownership of policies
• Working to achieve
consistency
• Staff development
• Joining up strategies and
policies
• Using tools effectively
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Uncovering secrets
• Varied, interrelated reasons
• Study on use of sources and
plagiarism in essays
– Questionnaire, text-analysis,
consultations with students
– Electronic sources as different
from print
– Lack of note-taking from
electronic sources
– Academic writing: not just
‘technical’ matters
– Ellery (2008)
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Directions
Building
connections
• Policy, strategy, practice,
implementation
• ‘Alignment’ (East, 2009)
• Language of policies (Bretag et al,
2011)
International
perspectives
• Academic integrity standards
initiative in Australia (Bretag et al)
• Approaches in USA: academic
integrity seminars, peer educator
programme (Bertram Gallant, 2010)
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Student
engagement
• Range of understandings and
confusions
• Dialogue and discussion
• Collaborative developments and
‘campaigns’
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Follow-up and resources
[email protected]
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Supporting academic integrity:
approaches and resources for
higher education
Policy works: recommendations
for reviewing policy to
manage unacceptable
academic practice in higher
education
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References
Belter, R. W. and du Pre, A. (2009) A strategy to reduce plagiarism in an undergraduate course. Teaching of Psychology, 36(4), 257261.
Bertram Gallant, T. (2010) UCSD Academic Integrity Annual Report 2008-2009. http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/uged/academicintegrity/AI_2008-2009_Report.pdf [7 June 2011].
Bretag, T. , Mahmud, S., East, J., Green, M., James, C., McGowan, U., Partridge, L., Wallace, M. and Walker, R. (2011) Academic
integrity standards: a preliminary analysis of academic integrity policies at Australian universities.
Carroll. J. (2007) A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff and
Learning Development.
East, J. (2009) Aligning policy and practice: an approach to integrating academic integrity. Journal of Academic Language &
Learning, 3(1), A38-A51.
Ellery, K. (2008) An investigation into electronic-source plagiarism in a first-year essay assignment. Assessment & Evaluation in
Higher Education, 33(6), 607-617.
Macdonald, R. and Carroll, J. (2006) Plagiarism – a complex issue requiring a holistic institutional approach. Assessment and
Evaluation in Higher Education, 31(2), 233-245.
Morris, E. with Carroll, J. (2011) Policy works: recommendations for reviewing policy to manage unacceptable academic practice in
higher education. The Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service, The Higher Education Academy. Available from:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Morris, E. et al (2010) Supporting academic integrity: approaches and resources for higher education. The Academy JISC Academic
Integrity Service, The Higher Education Academy. Available from: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Park, C. (2004) Rebels without a clause: towards an institutional framework for dealing with plagiarism by students. Journal of
Further and Higher Education. 28 (3), 291-306.
Plagiarismadvice.org (2010) Plagiarism Reference Tariff. Available from:
http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/documents/AMBeR%20Tariffv2.pdf [1 November 2010].
Tennant, P. and Duggan, F. (2008) Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project: Part 2. The Recorded Incidence of Student
Plagiarism and the Penalties Applied. Available from:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/assessment/alldisplay?type=projects&newid=AMBeR&site=yor
k [21 July 2010].
Walker, J. (2010) Measuring plagiarism: researching what students do, not what they say they do. Studies in Higher Education,
35(1), 41-59.
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