Connie Strittmatter, Virginia K. Bratton

Teaching Plagiarism Prevention to College Students (eBook, ePUB)

An Ethics-Based Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442264427
• Artikelnr.: 45221806

Autorenporträt

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 studentsat 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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface Part 1 Plagiarism:
An Ethical Issue 1 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 PEAT Appendix A 5
Putting it into Action: Implementing PEAT in the Classroom Part III
Assessing the Effectiveness of Your PEAT Program 6 Did They Like it? Did
They learn? Assessing Student Reactions and Knowledge 7 Did Training Make a
Difference? Assessing Student Behaviors and Organizational Outcomes 8
Sharing the News: Communicating Your Training Results 9 Where do we from
here?: A holistic model for plagiarism prevention About the Authors Index