Tackling Plagiarism in the Level One Biology Class

Tierney, Anne; Brown, Andrea; Neil, Douglas

Abstract

The Level One Biology class at the University of Glasgow reported 23 cases of plagiarism in session 2003/04. Several measures were put i.n place to help students understand plagiarism and how to avoid it. This has included changing the format and topics of assignments and taking students through an exercise designed to give them practice in spotting plagiarism. This has resulted in fewer cases of detected plagiarism in sessions 2004/05 and 2005/06. Students appear to understand what plagiarism is. However, they have great difficulty in using references in the correct way. The next step is to design an exercise, which gives students experience in using references in the correct way.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 10, 2006
• Online Publication Date: Apr 10, 2006
• Publication Date: Apr 10, 2006
• Deposit Date: Mar 11, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 12, 2019
• Journal: Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 13-21
• Keywords: plagiarism, biology education, group-working,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1652721
• Publisher URL: http://community.dur.ac.uk/pestlhe.learning/index.php/pestlhe/index
• Contract Date: Mar 11, 2019