Showing posts with label tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tutorial. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Can tutorials help prevent plagiarism?

According to Brian Jacob and Thomas Dee, they apparently can. This blog post on the Freakonomics blog (which I love) says that students who took a plagiarism tutorial before submitting papers plagiarized less frequently than those who didn't. The effect was stronger among students with lower SAT scores.
I am really excited about this study. In addition to the program self-study, our research tutorial is another project of mine. Our Distance Education Librarian, Beth, and I are overhauling it. We started with the plagiarism part. Check it out (it requires Flash). It's great to know that, at least in one case, a plagiarism tutorial was actually helpful.