I've been terribly remiss about having a website of my own, so I appreciate the couple of TIPSters and others who've put that assessment up on the web at their own sites (properly credited, of course).
This semester I taught two sections of the course in which I require that assessment, and I just finished dealing with the stragglers for those courses. Some students have an amazing amount of difficult with the paraphrases. One student who has failed the course twice already (and now three times) turned in the assessment with "paraphrases" that had no more than a word changed or omitted here and there. Now, that student has done the assessment two times before (struggled with it each time, of course), and been in the class discussion each time, and when I talked with the class about the recent Harvard undergraduate's plagiarism case, she laughed and said that she was amazed that someone at Harvard would be so stupid as to do that. Then she turned around two days later and gave me work that was at least 90% plagiarized. Also remember that the assessment is directly attached to the handout that explains how to do this correctly. I think of my job as largely a matter of figuring out what the student is thinking when she fails to do the work correctly, and then coming up with some kind of materials and activities that will head off whatever kind of wrong thinking is responsible. In this case and others like it, though, I'm completely stymied. I have no idea how a student could be so completely unaffected by her education. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 5/12/06, Caruso, Michael J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi John, I'm guessing that you are thinking of Paul Smith's "Establishing Authorship" exercise. My link to his original doesn't work either. I found a mirror of his page at : http://virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/bhutchison/online/plagiarism.htm Michael J. Caruso Associate Professor and Advisor Dept. of Psychology University of Toledo e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://homepages.utoledo.edu/mcaruso/ -----Original Message----- From: John W. Nichols, M.A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:05 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Name That TIPSter I am so embarrassed! I cannot come up with the name, but there is a TIPSter whose work I cannot find. He had a very good plagiarism page. It included some discussion of "double-dipping". Last I recall hearing, he was redoing his material in a new format. He had a grant (from NSF??) to redevelop the material. He was going to let us know the new URL when it went up, but I cannot find anything about it. I cannot even find the old site. Can anybody help me out? -- ----------==========>>>>>>>>>> ¨¨¨ <<<<<<<<<<==========---------- Sometimes you just have to try something, and see what happens. John W. Nichols, M.A. Assistant Professor of Psychology Tulsa Community College 909 S. Boston Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119 (918) 595-7134 Home: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols MegaPsych: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/megapsych.html --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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