Teaching students from diverse backgrounds
Topic: Engaging with youth culture
Are you aware of the features of youth culture in which some students are building plagiarism-related values and skills?
This topic is designed to help you improve:
- your understanding of disparities between academic traditions and the technology and values of youth culture
- your skill in adapting your approaches to teaching and assessment so that they remain relevant to young students
In this topic, you can read a short report on bootleg culture.
What do you think: Can young people take plagiarism seriously?
Further reading on this topic:
Hasen, M., & Huppert, M. (2005, November). The Trial of Damocles: An investigation into the incidence of plagiarism at an Australian university. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Parramatta, N.S.W. Retrieved June 1, 2006 from http://www.aare.edu.au/05pap/has05273.pdf
“Teaching staff were certain they had done everything they could to assure students that if they plagiarised they would be found out and punished… It was therefore of great surprise that 10 students of a group of 198 did plagiarise by cutting and pasting.”(p.2 of 12)
Marshall, S., & Garry, M. (2005). How well do students really understand plagiarism?In H. Goss (Ed.), Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: Proceedings of the 2005 ASCILITE Conference, Brisbane: QUT. Retrieved June 1, 2006 from http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane05/blogs/proceedings/52_Marshall.pdf
Survey of 181 first-year students in three different degree programs at a New Zealand university.
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