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Plagiarism in the Digital Age Katelyn Lemay NYU FAS Office of Educational Technology December 2, 2016 Office of Educational Technology
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Plagiarism in theDigital Age
Katelyn LemayNYU FAS Office of Educational TechnologyDecember 2, 2016
Office of Educational Technology
Agenda ● Intro & definitions● Educating students● Popular “tools” for cheating● Instructor tools & strategies● Demo: Turnitin● Additional questions
Definitions“Presenting others' work without adequate acknowledgement of its source, as though it were one’s own.”NYU Academic Integrity policy
“Plagiarism can lead to course failure or to further disciplinary actions, including suspension or expulsion.”
Liberal Studies Academic Integrity guide
http://tinyurl.com/nyuintegrity http://tinyurl.com/lsintegrity
“Studies differ in their projection as to how much college students actually engage in cheating.”
Differing estimatesNewstead, Franklin-Stokes, and Armstead (1996): >50% Nonis and Swift (2001): 30% - 96%
Wotring (2007): 47.2% - 70%
Source: American College Personnel Association (ACPA) - “Overview: Student Cheating in Higher Education”
How do students cheat?
● Content sharing sites‒ coursehero.com, postyourtest.com,
scribd.com, etc
● Plagiarism checkers ‒ WriteCheck, Turnitin
● Paper writing services
● “Collaborative cheating”
Why do students cheat?
● Increasingly competitive academic environment
● Perception that peers are cheating
● Access to online communication and tools
● Poor understanding of academic integrity
Students and academic integrity
● Differences in cultural understandings of plagiarism
● Inconsistent instruction in secondary schools
● Remix / mash-up culture
What are we doing to prevent plagiarism?
Current effortsPreventative approaches have shown to be more effective than punitive ones.
❏ Consistent messagingMake sure students - and faculty - have access to clearly written policy.
❏ Student educationStudents complete an online module before coming to campus.
❏ Supportive learning environmentRefer students to academic support centers and wellness resources on campus.
Current efforts
❏ Consistent messaging
❏ Student education
❏ Supportive learning environment
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https://www.nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines-compliance/policies-and-guidelines/academic-integrity-for-students-at-nyu.html
Current efforts
❏ Consistent messaging
❏ Student education
❏ Supportive learning environment
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https://m.albert.nyu.edu/app/dashboard (under “Self-tests”)
Additional Resources:FAS Office of Ed Tech Digital Literacy guide:https://wp.nyu.edu/fas-edtech/digital-literacy-guide/
NYU Libraries Copyright & Fair Use guide:http://guides.nyu.edu/fairuse
Current efforts
❏ Consistent messaging
❏ Student education
❏ Supportive learning environment
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Tools and strategies for faculty“low-tech” and “high-tech” approaches
“Low-tech”approaches
● Statement in syllabus about plagiarism
● Different versions of exams
● Low-stakes quiz on recognizing plagiarism
● Quick in-class writing exercises
● Oral presentations with in-class Q & A
“High-tech”approaches
● Multimedia projects
● Embracing remix / mash-up culture
● Course design*
● Turnitin (plagiarism detection software)*
Course design“Courses that rely upon infrequent, high-stakes assessments (such as three exams and nothing else) put intense pressure on each of those grade-earning opportunities, and ratchet up the incentive to cheat on each one…
...To tackle the cheating problem, we need to redesign college classes to help students develop motivation of their own. Educational theorists tell us that people learn best when they are trying to answer a question, solve a problem, or meet a challenge that matters to them.
We know, in other words, how to build classes that lower incentives for cheating—they are the same type of classes that create better environments for learning.” - How college classes encourage cheating, Boston Globe (04 Aug 2013)
TurnitinCreating a TurnItIn assignmenthttp://www.nyu.edu/servicelink/041223513203041
FERPA considerationshttp://www.nyu.edu/servicelink/041223510243634
Viewing originality reportshttp://www.nyu.edu/servicelink/041223614323072
Best practices
Turnitin:Best practices
● Include a statement in your syllabus
● Have students submit their own papers to Turnitin
‒ Create separate NYU Classes Assignments for drafts to avoid flagging for self-plagiarism
‒ Use Turnitin even if you don’t anticipate problems with plagiarism
● Use Originality Report as an indicator to look more closely at a student’s work
‒ If a student has a lot of long quotations, the
Originality Report will have a high similarity index, even if they are properly cited
