Academic Integrity Issues

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Academic Integrity Issues

• Seward County Community College
• Faculty In-Service
• January 12, 2007

Dr. David Allen, Director Dr. Helene Marcoux,
Associate Director Kansas State University Honor
Integrity System
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Academic Integrity Issues

• Agenda for Faculty In-Service

Introductions Academic Integrity Issue Survey
Activity Focus on Plagiarism
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IS there an issue?

• Donald McCabe
• (June 2005-College Results)

• Nationwide 70 admit to some cheating
• 1/4 admit to serious test cheating
• 1/2 admit to serious cheating on assignments

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IS there an issue?
Donald McCabe (June 2005-High School Results)

• Similar to college scene
• 1/2 engaged in Internet plagiarism

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IS there an issue?
2000 Survey Whos Who Among High School Students

• 80 admitted to cheating of some form
• 53 did NOT believe that cheating
• was a serious ethical violation

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IS there an issue?

• If you surveyed SCCC students and faculty today
  on academic integrity issues

• what would the results show?

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Faculty Survey Activity

• Take a minute or two right now to answer the
  brief survey being handed out. Do not identify
  yourself on the survey.

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Faculty Survey Activity

• Now get into groups of 4 or 5
• and come to a consensus on each item.

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KSU Faculty Survey Results

• Three-word box activity
• Cheating Plagiarizing Copying (some form)

• Scenario 1 8.9Yes 85.3No
• Scenario 2 45.5Yes 40.7No
• Scenario 3 19.5Yes 75.8No
• Scenario 4 17.6Yes 74.5No

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The Point Is

• This is not a cut and dried, black or white issue
  for faculty.
• If this is the case, how do students KNOW what to
  do or what is accepted?

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Focus on Plagiarism

• What is plagiarism? Definition
• How can I tell if this is it? Activity
• How can I prevent it? Assignment Guidelines
• How can I detect it? Resources
• How do I address it when it occurs? Policy

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Definitions

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Definition

• Websters College Dictionary
• Plagiarism is equaled with kidnapping and defined
  as the unauthorized use of the language and
  thoughts of another author and the representation
  of them as ones own.

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Definition

• Writing--words, thoughts, expressions
• Design--art, song, graphic
• Structure--paragraph plundering

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Activity

• Small group directions After reading the
  scenario provided, decide as a group if
  plagiarism has occurred.
• Large group discussion Spokesperson for the
  small group give BRIEF description of scenario
  and consensus of small group.

Quotation Marks
Word for Word
Para phrasing
In-body citing
Citing
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Assignment Guidelines

• Make assignments clear and specific.
• Use a written assignment guideline.
• Toy with using just one topic for all students.
• This can be explained by stressing that writing
  and researching skills are more important than
  acquiring knowledge with THIS paper.
• Have students narrow topic after selection.

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Assignment Guidelines

• Break the assignment into pieces, setting due
  dates for each piece.
• Divide the total credit for the paper into credit
  for each piece.
• Require annotated bibliography.
• Require photocopies/printouts of sources.

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Assignment Guidelines

• Require interaction and feedback.
• Require an oral report.
• Require a metalearning essay.
• Require an integrity statement.

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Detecting Plagiarism--Obvious Clues

• Mixed citation/bibliographic styles
• Lack of citations or quotations
• Dead-end internal references
• Unusual formatting
• Off topic
• Signs of datedness
• Dead URLs

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Detecting Plagiarism--Subtle Clues

• Anomalies of style
• Anomalies of diction
• Long sentences

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Detecting--Know the Major Sources

• Local sources
• Free and for-sale paper sites
• The free, visible Web
• Newsgroups
• Paid databases over the Web
• CD-ROM resources

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Detecting--Search for the paper on-line

• Try Findsame, HowOriginal, EssayCrawler,
• and /or EssayFinder
• Use a metasearch tool
• Use several search engines
• Use a plagiarism detector

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Dealing With Plagiarism

• Collect information.
• Use a second opinion. Watch confidentiality
  issues.
• Meet with the student.
• Use step-by-step approach.
• Faculty Tips --KSU Honor System web site.

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Summary

• Academic integrity--is it an issue?
• Focusing on plagiarism--what is it?
• Use scenarios in teaching.
• Prevent--use assignment guidelines.
• Detect--use resources.
• Deal--use the SCCC policy.

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Primary Source Used Today

• The Plagiarism Handbook Strategies for
  Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with
  Plagiarism
• Robert A. Harris, Vanguard University
• 2001
• Pyrczak Publishing
• P.O. Box 39731
• Los Angles, CA 90039
• www.AntiPlagiarism.com

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Source Found on Website

• http//www.indiana.edu/istd/test.html
• This is a student interactive plagiarism tutorial.

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Contact Us

• Dave
• dallen_at_ksu.edu
• Helene
• helene_at_ksu.edu

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Questions

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