[Jdm-society] optimistic bias and plagiarism

[Dr David Hardman]

Yesterday's UK Guardian newspaper carried a report on plagiarism and 
perceptions of plagiarism. Instructors appear to have an optimistic bias 
about the topic. One study found that students in American honour-code 
institutions thought that they had less incidence of academic honesty. 
In fact, there was no difference between colleges and universities with 
and without honour codes.

In another study "Nearly all of the professors claimed that plagiarism 
was slightly worse nationally than on their campus, slightly worse 
campus-wide than in their department, and slightly worse in the 
department than in their own classes".

Full story here:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2074183,00.html


David



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