Teaching Plagiarism Prevention to College Students (eBook)

An Ethics-Based Approach

Virginia K. Bratton, Connie Strittmatter (Autoren)

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2016
158 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6442-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Teaching Plagiarism Prevention to College Students: An Ethics-Based Approach provides an innovative approach to plagiarism instruction by grounding it in ethics theory. By providing an ethics foundation to plagiarism instruction, this book helps the plagiarism instructor to address both unintentional and intentional plagiarism behaviors among students. This book provides tools to address why plagiarism is an important ethical issue in an academic environment.This book introduces general principles of ethics adaptable to library instruction of plagiarism in a variety of learning settings. It guides an instructor through curriculum pedagogical design drawing on library and ethics training literatures. It provides examples of materials to support the implementation of an ethical approach to plagiarism instruction. Finally, it outlines a detailed approach to assessment in order to measure changes in student reactions, learning, and behaviors as a result of this instruction. It further provides guidance in how to communicate institutional outcomes to key decision-makers.

Autor

Connie Strittmatter is the Head Librarian for Access Services at Boston College. Prior to her position at Boston College, she was the Team Leader for Access Services and Associate Professor at Montana State University Library. She received her MLS from Kent State University in 2000 and her Masters in Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in 2004. Connie’s research focus has been on pedagogical design for library instruction. She has published in College & Research Libraries, Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, and Ethics & Behavior. While at Montana State University, Connie worked with Business faculty to incorporate a library instruction module (with an ethics component) into a core business class. She expanded her plagiarism and ethics instruction into engineering and international student orientation. Virginia K. Bratton is an Associate Professor of Management in the Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Florida State University in 2004, where she completed her dissertation on the topic of ethical decision-making on a student population. Dr. Bratton teaches courses in organizational behavior, human resource management, and leadership. Her research focus is on business ethics, impression management, and performance appraisals, and she has published in Journal of Organizational Behavior,Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Leadership and Organization Development Journal. Dr. Bratton has delivered ethics instruction to a broad array of populations including undergraduate business and engineering students at Montana State University, doctoral management students at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia, and human resource management practitioners from Montana and its surrounding states.

Inhalt

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart 1 Plagiarism: An Ethical Issue1 Plagiarism Prevention Instruction: Where Did We Come from? Where Are We Going?2 Thinking Through the Ethics of Plagiarism: A Crash Course Part II Introducing Plagiarism and Ethics Awareness Training (PEAT)3 Getting Started: Choosing Your Teaching Strategy for PEAT 4 Designing Your Content: The Curricular Building Blocks of PEATAppendix A5 Putting it into Action: Implementing PEAT in the ClassroomPart III Assessing the Effectiveness of Your PEAT Program6 Did They Like it? Did They learn? Assessing Student Reactions and Knowledge 7 Did Training Make a Difference? Assessing Student Behaviors and Organizational Outcomes8 Sharing the News: Communicating Your Training Results9 Where do we from here?: A holistic model for plagiarism preventionAbout the AuthorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Library Instruction
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-6442-X / 144226442X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-6442-7 / 9781442264427