Transcript Plagiarism - University of Leeds

Plagiarism
Submission
Turnitin
Marking
(Section 2.3.2)
School Meeting
HoS/Nominee
Tutors closely
associated with work
Minute taker
Student and Supporter
(Section 2.3.1)
3 days notice of meeting
Details of work to be
investigated
Copy of all work and
evidence duly marked-up
Right to a supporter
Allegation of Plagiarism
(Section 2.3.3)
Admits Plagiarising
1st Offence g impose penalty
(notify student cc AAandR)
Appeal against penalty
(Section 5.1)
(Section 2.3.4)
Denies Plagiarising
gCommittee on
Applications
(Section 2.3.3)
Admits Plagiarising
1st Offence BUT aggravated/
egregious AND/OR 2nd
Offence g Committee on
Applications
(Section 5.1)
In 14 days Student submits
Written Appeal to AAandR against
Penalty imposed at School level
(Section 2.3.3)
(Section 2.3.5)
In 14 days write to the student
notifying him/her case g
Committee
Include Minutes of Meeting
Refer student to Section 3
(Section 4)
Committee on Applications
Student invited to appear
Departmental Rep. on standby
(Section 2.3.5)
Send documents (as listed) to AAandR
Remember that student must have
seen everything
(Section 3.1 and 3.2)
In 14 days Student must send a
Written Response to AAandR
(Section 4.3)
GUILTY
Penalty Imposed
(Section 4.3)
NOT GUILTY
Usually work to be marked
normally
Appeal against penalty (and where
plagiarism denied the findings)
(Section 5.2)
(Section 5.2)
In 28 days Student submits Written
Appeal to AAandR against Penalty
and/or findings (Section 4.3)
Decision on Appeal
against Penalty (5.1)
(Section 5.3)
Appeal Upheld
Penalties removed and
findings quashed
(Section 5.3)
Appeal Rejected
Findings and Penalty
confirmed in all respects
Office of Academic
Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Health Check
– Update publications
– Compulsory session before any
submissions
• test?
• plagiarism activities
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Turnitin
– Beating Turnitin
– Arms Race
– % of Work?
• Plagiarism is an academic
decision
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Student Co-operation
– must attend meeting
– action if unavoidably absent
– rights to advice and supporter
• no representation
– student must provide information
immediately as required by
department
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Common Procedural mistakes
– marking up (incomplete)
• warning
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“I know nothing”
entrapment
intention
all papers to the student including
department’s reasoned conclusion
(to the Office)
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Plagiarism
• Elephant traps
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group work
collusion
borrowed PCs
memory sticks
• Full and complete investigation
at Departmental level
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Concurrent Offences
– First Offences addressed in
department
– If one offence is aggravated both
to the Committee
• Aggravated Offences
– Theft
– Deception e.g. falsifying
references
• Malpractice
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Mitigation
– Principle: not comparable with
mitigation for under-performance
– Unlikely to affect guilt or
innocence
– Can affect penalty
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Annex 3 of published
procedures
– full list of penalties
• Departments can impose any
penalty short of exclusion or
delaying student’s progress
• Cases before the Committee
mean that the student’s place is
in question
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Rule of thumb
– compare penalty with case of student who has
failed honestly
• if no difference, then penalty is too light
– remember it is a penalty not action for a case of
illness
• Factors for consideration
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scale of offence, relative to the piece of work
seniority of the student
source of material, e.g. essay mill, internet etc
attempt at concealment
mitigation and its relevance
• Advice from Office
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Plagiarism
• Consistency
– record offences and penalties
– keep penalties simple
– bear in mind the student’s level of
study
– remember longer term
consequences for the student but
retain consistency
• effect on Honours
• displacement of work, workload
issues
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Plagiarism
• Office of the Independent
Adjudicator (OIA)
– identify cases at an early stage
• consistent and comprehensive
checking process
– retrospective investigations
permitted
– procedural irregularities fatal
• Change Procedures
– August sits: Externals
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Awards
– University forbids any award
where plagiarism has not been
purged (PVC and Committee on
Applications)
– No knowingly plagiarised work
can contribute to an award of the
University
– Degrees can be revoked
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Appeals & Regulation
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Plagiarism
• Have a nice day!
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Appeals & Regulation
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