Event Report

Preventing and Designing out Plagiarism

Tuesday 8th April 2008

University of Leicester, Medical Sciences Building, room G26

Plagiarism is a major issue for all those involved in teaching and learning in Higher Education. This one day event focused on ways to prevent plagiarism and designing assessments to minimise the risk of plagiarism. There were opportunities for delegates to discuss effective practice and share ideas, as well as an interactive session and talks from people who have worked extensively in this area.

10.00	Registration and coffee
Programme
10.20	Welcome and Introduction to the day
10.30	Keynote: Cooking the Books Fiona Duggan, Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service
11.00	Electronic detection of Plagiarism Jo Badge, University of Leicester
11.25	Refreshments
11.40	Teaching students what plagiarism is to prevent it Maureen Dawson and Joyce Overfield, Manchester Metropolitan University
12.05	Improving scientific literacy to prevent plagiarism Dorothy Aidulis, University of Glasgow
12.25	Lunch
13.25	Workshop: Using course and task design to deter students from plagiarism Jude Carroll, Deputy Director Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange (ASKe) CETL Scenarios used in the workshop Interrogation checklist for others' assessment tasks
14.25	Refreshments
14.40	Swapshop An opportunity for delegates to share their thoughts and start a discussion around aspects of plagiarism. Jon Scott, University of Leicester, Policy evolution and the elusive grail of consistency Vivien Rolfe, De Montfort University, Using Turnitin for essay drafts and final submissions Stuart Johnson, University of Leicester, Subject-specific online tutorials to help students understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it (link to external site)
16.00	Chris Willmott's Reflections on the day

Summary of the day (link to pdf)

Additional Resources

Short Guide: Preventing and Designing Out Plagiarism
Codgdell, B. and Aidulus, D. (2008) Dealing with plagiarism as an ethical issue. In: Roberts, T.S., Student plagiarism in an online world: Problems and solutions, London, Information Science Reference, pp. 38-59
Dawson M.M. and Overfield J.A. (2006) Plagiarism: Do Students Know What It Is? Bioscience Education E-Journal. Volume 8. Appendix: Guidelines on Plagiarism (for students)
Jude Carroll and Jon Appleton (2001) Plagiarism: A Good Practice Guide . JISC/Oxford Brookes University. This guide has some useful suggestions on how to prevent plagiarism.
Jude Carroll (2007) A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education (2nd ed). OCSLD, UK.
The JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service website contains a lot of useful information and further resources

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