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Honest Discussions of Academic Honesty

Honest Discussions of Academic Honesty UWG Instructors’ Meeting 10/25/07 Are Students Honest? Your experience Students’ perception and experience Motivations for Honesty Students may not see a good motivation for honest behavior Students may see short-term gain in dishonest behavior

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Honest Discussions of Academic Honesty

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  1. Honest Discussions of Academic Honesty UWG Instructors’ Meeting 10/25/07

  2. Are Students Honest? • Your experience • Students’ perception and experience

  3. Motivations for Honesty • Students may not see a good motivation for honest behavior • Students may see short-term gain in dishonest behavior • Students often don’t see the results/consequences of dishonest behavior

  4. Student “Confession” • GoalQuest Virtual Mentor • http://www.goalquest.com/virtualmentors/

  5. Faculty Needs • How to discuss honesty with FY students? • How to enforce academic honesty? • How to communicate enforcement? • Should we be teaching students how to be academically honest?

  6. Writing and Citing --a vignette

  7. Problem • Large, introductory (XIDS 2002) class with a take-home essay exam question. • Four students plagiarized their submissions • Penalty for plagiarism is course failure. • What did we do?

  8. Communicate! • With faculty… • With offenders… • With class… • With administration…

  9. Plagiarism “To steal and pass off as one's own.”

  10. From Wikipedia… • Charles Robert Darwin (12 February1809 – 19 April1882) was an eminent Englishnaturalist[I] who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community that species develop over time from a common origin. His theories explaining this phenomenon through natural and sexual selection are central to the modern understanding of evolution as the unifying theory of the life sciences, essential in biology and important in other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology and philosophy.[1]

  11. Is this plagiarism? • Example 1: • Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 and died on April 19, 1882. • Example 2: • Charles Darwin, who was born February 12, 1809 and died April 19, 1882, was an eminent English naturalist who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community that species develop over time from a common origin. His theories explaining this phenomenon through natural and sexual selection are central to the modern understanding of evolution as the unifying theory of the life sciences, essential in biology and important in other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

  12. Is this plagiarism? • Example 3: • Charles Darwin was an eminent English naturalist born in 1809. He convinced other scientists that species develop over time from a common origin. His arguments were so persuasive because they successfully combined ideas on geography, embryology, paleontology, breeding, anatomy, behavior, anthropology, and many other fields that were previously viewed as unrelated. His ideas have been important in other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

  13. Is this plagiarism? • Example 4: • Charles Darwin was an “eminent English naturalist” born in 1809 (Wikipedia, 2007). He convinced other scientists “that species develop over time from a common origin” (Wikipedia, 2007). His arguments were so persuasive because they successfully combined “ideas on geography, embryology, paleontology, breeding, anatomy, behavior, anthropology, and many other fields that were previously viewed as unrelated.” His ideas have been “important in other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology and philosophy” (Wikipedia, 2007). • Works cited: • Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (2007) Charles Darwin. Retrieved March 13, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin.

  14. Is this plagiarism? • Example 5: • Charles Darwin was born in England on February 12, 1809 and died April 19, 1882. He was the first scientist to propose natural selection as a plausible mechanism for the evolution of species from a common ancestor. He developed his ideas by comparing the breeding of domestic plants and animals to the patterns of variability found in nature. His hypothesis was widely accepted because it successfully combined ideas from a wide variety of disciplines, including geography, embryology, and paleontology (Charles Darwin, 2007) within a framework of scientific testability. • Works cited: • Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (2007) Charles Darwin. Retrieved March 13, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin.

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