Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/
I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism?
LiAnna
I never came up with a magical solution of plagiarism and I would like to hear it, if there is one. The percentages suggested by Sage Ross's study are realistic; these are numbers we cope with on Czech Wikipedia too. It seems to me that some students can hear the "Don't plagiarise" warning three times and still do it; among others, this is also a matter of generally educating people what authorship and plagiarism means. All sorts of 'strange' questions are asked by students during the Wikipedia sessions such as "I know we can't copy from a book, but what about from the Internet", "Can I copy from the Internet if there is no author?" etc... you have to answer all of these carefully. My friend Petr Broz (user:Chmee2) used to have one way of making students remember that they should not plagiarize: He explained them everything and than he showed them how easy it is to discover a plagiarism by showing a google search by test and a google search by searching for similar images. This seemed to leave a long-lasting effect on students :-). cheers Vojtech ************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz ______________________________________________________________
Od: LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org Komu: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 21.11.2013 00:04 Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study
Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts:http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism?LiAnna
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-----Original Message----- From: Vojtěch Dostál vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz To: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 8:26 am Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study
I never came up with a magical solution of plagiarism and I would like to hear it, if there is one. The percentages suggested by Sage Ross's study are realistic; these are numbers we cope with on Czech Wikipedia too. It seems to me that some students can hear the "Don't plagiarise" warning three times and still do it; among others, this is also a matter of generally educating people what authorship and plagiarism means. All sorts of 'strange' questions are asked by students during the Wikipedia sessions such as "I know we can't copy from a book, but what about from the Internet", "Can I copy from the Internet if there is no author?" etc... you have to answer all of these carefully.
My friend Petr Broz (user:Chmee2) used to have one way of making students remember that they should not plagiarize: He explained them everything and than he showed them how easy it is to discover a plagiarism by showing a google search by test and a google search by searching for similar images. This seemed to leave a long-lasting effect on students :-).
cheers Vojtech
************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz
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Od: LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org Komu: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 21.11.2013 00:04 Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study
Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/ I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism? LiAnna
The issue of plagiarism is recurrent in Wikipedia, and in the educational realm as well; unfortunately, even at university level.
In our experience for instance, we detected a case of plagiarism by a participant of the workshops we provide locally in the project "Wikipedia in Education" http://eduwiki.me. He created an article by copying and pasting literally from another source. The issue took some relevance among the internal core of members of the project, as it is directed to teachers and students at the Consejo de Formación en Educación (Council of Learning in Education), an institution tasked with educating teachers of primary and intermediate education here in Uruguay. Certainly, the article was removed immediately and the person responsible for plagiarizing it was removed from the project. One of the points, in fact, that are recurrently put emphasis on during workshops is the issue of copy-paste, particularly without citing sources, and always as long as the quote is justified as such by its extension and relevance.
Wikipedia is useful precisely as a tool to make plagiarism public. That is, from my perspective, one of the relevant benefits of incoorporating Wikipedia to educational projects, since it allows for an externalization of classroom work. The articles are open to a community from which students can receive all kinds of opinions, criticism, and questioning. Certainly it is the teacher’s role to know how to channel in the best manner possible these interactions and peer-reviews, according to the social context and age of said students.
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Fernando
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I never came up with a magical solution of plagiarism and I would like to hear it, if there is one. The percentages suggested by Sage Ross's study are realistic; these are numbers we cope with on Czech Wikipedia too. It seems to me that some students can hear the "Don't plagiarise" warning three times and still do it; among others, this is also a matter of generally educating people what authorship and plagiarism means. All sorts of 'strange' questions are asked by students during the Wikipedia sessions such as "I know we can't copy from a book, but what about from the Internet", "Can I copy from the Internet if there is no author?" etc... you have to answer all of these carefully.
My friend Petr Broz (user:Chmee2) used to have one way of making students remember that they should not plagiarize: He explained them everything and than he showed them how easy it is to discover a plagiarism by showing a google search by test and a google search by searching for similar images. This seemed to leave a long-lasting effect on students :-).
cheers Vojtech
Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz
Od: LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org Komu: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 21.11.2013 00:04 Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study
Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/ I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism? LiAnna
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Interesting. There has been performed a study done within Czech UNI students, about how they understand plagiarism and than compared with U.S. students. Results were, that Czech students would tend to plagiarise much more than U.S. students.
The roots of this behaviour might be in society, as these students may have learnt such behaviour in their families and/or from the society.
Regards, Juandev
2013/11/21 LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org
Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/
I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism?
LiAnna
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On 11/20/2013 06:04 PM, LiAnna Davis wrote:
I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism?
In my experience in the university context, the best prevention is to simply require the students to submit the assignments via Turn It In. That pretty much removes the temptation. That said, when I look at the TII reports they often show the best papers as being the most plagiaristic because the students made extensive use of quotes and bibliography. The algorithms aren't very good. Hence, I'm curious about the details of Sage's figures.
And the practice and its reception certainly is cultural. As Loveland and I write in [1]:
More generally, although the notions of authorship, ownership, and other elements of print culture are taken for granted today, Adrian Johns (2001) argues that they ‘are in fact rather more contingent than generally acknowledged’. In particular, the process of stigmergy is at odds with increasingly strict laws regarding copyright. In this vein, Peter Jaszi argues that ‘copyright law, with its emphasis on rewarding and safeguarding “originality”, has lost sight of the cultural value of what might be called “serial collaborations” – works resulting from successive elaborations of an idea or text’ (1994: 40). Furthermore, deference to copyright has become so exaggerated that, in Rebecca Moore Howard’s view, it prompts a form of hypocrisy around what she calls ‘patchwriting’, ‘a form of imitatio, of mimesis’ that is inherent to professional writing and students’ learning (1999: xviii). A similar concern leads Richard Posner (2007) to conclude that plagiarism is a complex and constructed notion, overreaching and inappropriate in many of its contemporary applications; according to Posner, what we should focus on and condemn is intellectual fraud.
[1]: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/01/13/1461444812470428.full