What’s on This Webpage:
How Percentages Were
Calculated of Students Who Did Not Know Basic Requirements
The percentages of students not recognizing the need for factual accuracy is a key issue: over 63% for most terms since Spring 2011. An additional problem is that students who do “half-copy” plagiarism or “patchwriting,” read passively (because they think copying words is what we want them to do) and also frequently make factual errors.
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What Students Identified That They Did Not Realize Prior to Feedback on Their Written Work |
Percent |
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Spring 2011 |
Fall 2011 |
Spring 20121 |
Fall 2013 |
Spring 2014 |
Spring 2015 |
Fall 2015 |
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Need for reliable sources, including not relying on their memories |
42% |
50% |
46.7% |
63.7% |
62% |
50% |
56.4% |
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No plagiarism |
52% |
61% |
51% |
48.3% |
42% |
50% |
46.7% |
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No changes to another’s words without showing the changes |
46% |
42% |
40.2 |
33.7% |
37% |
44% |
53.2% |
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Need for factual accuracy |
63% |
65% |
67.3% |
67.2% |
52%2 |
63.5% |
64.4% |
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No assumptions about the author believing what you believe |
53% |
40% |
48% |
56.8% |
42% |
59.6% |
53.2% |
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Need to know where you found facts |
57% |
44% |
53% |
56.8% |
55.7% |
44%3 |
54.8% |
1 Data for most terms from Spring
2012 to Fall 2013 is available, but has not been calculated.
2 Numbers may be lower perhaps because 2 classes included students
who had previously taken the U.S. History I course.
3 Numbers may be lower because I provided a required
class session on these issues, including showing an example of a paper and
where endnotes were required.
In the student surveys to try to improve how to help students, the students saw this question.
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I gave you feedback on how well you read the source. Some of you seemed to realize things about your work that will help your future. If you did, mark with an X ALL that apply to you. ___ Need for reliable sources ___ No plagiarism ___ No changes to another’s words without showing the changes ___ Need for factual
accuracy ___ No assumptions about the author believing what you believe ___ Need to know where you found facts |
Adding all of the Xs for each item from the classes and then dividing that total by the number of students taking the survey to determine the % who marked an X:
· Spring 2011 – 5 on-campus classes
· Fall 2011 – 3 on-campus classes.
· Spring 2012 – 5 on-campus classes
· Fall 2013 – 4 on-campus classes and 1 distance learning class
· Spring 2014 – 4 on-campus classes
· Fall 2014 – data not collected in all classes
· Spring 2015 – 4 on-campus classes
· Fall 2015 – 3 on-campus classes
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2016 |
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