[Air-l] turnitin issue

[Tama Leaver]

Since we've moved onto talking about how to try and guide students away from
plagiarism, I recently developed a one-page primer for course design at UWA
which suggests some strategies for designing better courses and assessment,
encouraging original work.  It's up on the web if anyone's interested:
http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/72852/NotesOnPreventingPlagiarism.pdf

(And apologies to Barry as this thread has clearly strayed substantially
from his original question!)

Cheers,
Tama

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Dr Tama Leaver
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On 3/9/07, Mary-Helen Ward <mhward at usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that an assumption of plagiarism until proven otherwise
> is a violation of human rights - personally I think it's like showing
> your driver's licence when stopped by the police. They're not
> assuming that you are an unlicensed driver, they are simply
> confirming that you are licensed. Similarly, the academic staff are
> not assuming students are plagiarising, they are taking steps to
> protect the integrity of the institution and to increase the fairness
> of the classroom environment. Would you be happy if you missed out on
> a scholarship to a student who had plagiarised? How do you feel about
> your students turning in plagiarised work?
>
> That said, I agree with Douglas that rather than use systems like
> turnitin, I would like to see teachers be more creative with their
> assessments to lessen the possibility of plagiarism.
>
> M-H
>
>
> On 09/03/2007, at 10:57 AM, Rosanna Tarsiero wrote:
>
> > As a student myself (and online instructor), I never plagiarized a
> > paper,
> > and I do know that there are persons that do.
> >
> > However, the assumption that students need to prove innocent
> > (rather than
> > innocence unless otherwise proven) bothers me a great deal.
> >
> > I would refuse both submitting a paper to turnitin AND doing
> > supplemental
> > work. In all honesty, I do hope that some student sooner or later
> > ends up
> > suing colleges. Assuming people to be guilty unless otherwise proven
> > violates quite a number of human rights.
> >
> > Rosanna Tarsiero
>
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