The Benefits from Allowing Plagiarism

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The Benefits from Allowing Plagiarism

• Workshop Facilitator
• Phil Davies
• School of Computing
• University of Glamorgan

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ASSESSMENT

• Plagiarism linked to assessment
• Cheating
• Who are the students cheating?
• Other students!!!!
• Will other student shop their peers to the
  authorities (lecturers) . NOT THE DONE THING

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Prevention is better than detection

• If the students know they will be caught, or
  theres a good chance theyll be caught, will
  they still cheat
• Lecturers too busy to check sources

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Computerised Peer Assessment

• CAP system
• OLAL MCQ tests either side of marking process
• Award marks for ability in marking
• Students viewing assessment from the tutors point
  of view

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Benefits

• Students look at resources found by others
• Students copy good practices of others
• Students identify plagiarism of others
• Students REPORT on plagiarism of others
• Students enjoy shopping their peers
• Students do NOT enjoy comments of peers
• Students do NOT like being caught!!!

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Why do students plagiarise?

• Limits of time to do work
• Pressures of work / jobs
• Copy from Web NOT from each other
• Is it the assessors fault?
• Set work that can be easily plagiarised
• Easier to mark

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Do they learn by copying?

• Having read the information from the web, they
  understand it, so they reproduce it
• Why bother re-wording it when it is written so
  well already
• Why waste my time re-wording it, when I could be
  learning instead
• Assessment - ability to hide plagiarism

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Weaker Students Benefit

• Weak at start of module
• Prior knowledge should not be assessed
• Weaker students use peer support
• The end justifies the means
• Single assessment at the end
• Will the students produce quality work throughout
  the module if no credit gained

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Summary

• Peer support / assessment / detection
• Let them learn through plagiarising
• Assessment process must be re-structured
• How do we assess?
• Examinations
• Essays (Writing skills NOT Understanding)
• Continuous multiple-assessment of understanding
  until they get it right