Tackling Plagiarism in the Level One Biology Class

Research Output

The Level One Biology class at the University of Glasgow reported 23 cases of plagiarism in session 2003/04. Several measures were put i.n place to help students understand plagiarism and how to avoid it. This has included changing the format and topics of assignments and taking students through an exercise designed to give them practice in spotting plagiarism. This has resulted in fewer cases of detected plagiarism in sessions 2004/05 and 2005/06. Students appear to understand what plagiarism is. However, they have great difficulty in using references in the correct way. The next step is to design an exercise, which gives students experience in using references in the correct way.

Type:

Article
Date:

10 April 2006
Publication Status:

Published
Library of Congress:

LB2300 Higher Education
Dewey Decimal Classification:

378 Higher education
Funders:

Edinburgh Napier Funded

http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/output/1652721 Tierney, A., Brown, A., & Neil, D. (2006). Tackling Plagiarism in the Level One Biology Class. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 1(1), 13-21

Citation

Tierney, A., Brown, A., & Neil, D. (2006). Tackling Plagiarism in the Level One Biology Class. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 1(1), 13-21