Evaluating an Electronic Plagiarism Detection Service: The Importance of Trust and the Difficulty of Proving Students Don't Cheat

Autor/in	Evans, Robert
Titel	Evaluating an Electronic Plagiarism Detection Service: The Importance of Trust and the Difficulty of Proving Students Don't Cheat
Quelle	In: Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 7 (2006) 1, S.87-99 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-7874
DOI	10.1177/1469787406061150
Schlagwörter	Plagiarism; Internet; Higher Education; Computer Software; Cheating; Foreign Countries; Trust (Psychology); Student Attitudes; Access to Information; Computer Software Evaluation; Undergraduate Students; Ethics; Integrity; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Plagiat; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Prellen; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Softwareanalyse; Ethik; Integrität; Großbritannien
Abstract	Plagiarism by students is seen as an increasing problem. The fear is that students will use the internet to obtain analysis, interpretation or even complete assignments and then submit these as their own work. Electronic plagiarism detection services may help to prevent such unfair practice but, in doing so, they create a new problem: certifying the absence of plagiarism. This article reports the results of an evaluation of one such service within an interdisciplinary school of social sciences. The article describes how the system works and the experiences of staff and students in using the service, together with an evaluation of the data generated. The key findings are that the service did identify examples of poor scholarship and unfair practice that had been missed under the usual marking system but that rigorously checking every script for plagiarism was impractical. Trust and student honesty thus remain central to a successful academic system. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10