1. Responding to plagiarism

4. Plagiarism What Are We Talking About? Student Choices Pressure: Grades Ease Intent Pressure: Time Turnitin.com Failing, rewriting? Punitive response Teacher Choices Assignments Assumptions Expectations Pressure: Time Ease Intent Culture Systems Honor Codes Ethics Gap

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6. 6. Did you alert students of plagiarism problems found by Turnitin.com and allow them to make corrections? Alerted no corrections 2144.7% Alerted allowed corrections 1940.4% No alert no corrections 714.9% Does Turnitin.com work?

7. Responding to plagiarism No matches 0-24%25-49%50-74%75-100% Reports8,98815,9533,0335581,346 Percent30%53%10%2%5% Sample results from Penn State, 2005 Does Turnitin.com work?

8. Responding to plagiarism Reduces PlagiarismIncreases Learning Honor Code Honor Code as a part of school culture Turnitin.com Turnitin.com as a teaching tool Strict Consequences Standardized Expectations and Response

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11. TeachersStudentsAdmin.Parents Plagiarism: What can we do as a community?Plagiarism: What are our concerns? Are students accountable? Is the work challenging? Are students learning? Am I being treated fairly? What if I make a mistake? What happens if…? Does the system work? Are students learning? Will this affect future success? Are policies fair? Learning Fairness Consequences

12. Responding to plagiarism Strict consequences Failure? Rewriting? Discussion? Two-strike systems?

13. Responding to plagiarism “The common use of the zero today is based not on a four- point scale but on a 100 point scale. The defies logic and mathematical accuracy…when the grade of zero is applied to a 100-point scale, the interval between D and F is not 10 points but 60 points…even if we want to punish the little miscreants who fail our assignments—and I admit that on more than one occasion with both my students and my own children, my emotions have run in that direction—then what is the fair, appropriate, and mathematically accurate punishment?” --Douglas B. Reeves, “The Case Against the Zero,” Phi Delta Kappan (2004 )

14. Responding to plagiarism Making the Grade Research shows three reliable effects when students are graded: They tend to think less deeply, avoid taking risks, and lose interest in the learning itself. The ultimate goal of authentic assessment must be the elimination of grades. -Alfie Kohn

15. Responding to plagiarism Case Study: ROTC

16. Responding to plagiarism Study Guide Questions 4.4 and 4.6