Plagiarism and the CHC student

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Plagiarism and the CHC student

• Juliana Durovic (Monash International)
• Linda Brennan (Swinburne University)

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The evidence

• Educators face problems of plagiarism everyday
• The language of cheating is an issue
• Innocence versus guilt and adversarial systems of
  proof
• Does everyone cheat?

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CHC Students and plagiarism

• Credentialing versus learning
• Surface learning versus deep learning
• Confucian traditions of learning
• The search for the right answer
• The adaptation of learning to individual needs
• Examinations as the major form of assessment

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The CHC student in the Westernised learning
context

• Individualism
• Uncertainty avoidance
• Power distance

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Method

• Focus groups
• Interviews
• Question development
• Questionnaire distribution
• 190 CHC students in an introductory marketing
  class (66 response rate)

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Outcomes

• There are no significant differences between
  students preferred learning strategies in terms
  of Western and traditional learning activities

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Outcomes

• Propensity to search for an easy solution to the
  problem is related to
• The socially isolated and stressed student
• The more informal (westernised) the learning
  strategy the more likely the student to seek
  the easy way out
• Everyone appears to have used another students
  work at some time

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So what?

• Plagiarism and the dictionary
• Individuate the learning as a first step
• Explain the differences in learning culture
• Problem based learning
• Authentic assessment strategies
• Clarity and precision