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Skills training to avoid inadvertent plagiarism: results from a randomised control study

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posted on 2024-06-03, 22:45 authored by FJ Newton, JD Wright, Joshua NewtonJoshua Newton
Plagiarism continues to be a concern within academic institutions. The current study utilised a randomised control trial of 137 new entry tertiary students to assess the efficacy of a scalable short training session on paraphrasing, patch writing and plagiarism. The results indicate that the training significantly enhanced students' overall knowledge about in-text referencing protocols. Importantly, this knowledge was found to translate into applied skills, with the intervention group performing significantly better in a practical skills application task. Moreover, the findings suggest that it is confidence in writing in English, not language background per se, which plays a significant role in students' practical skills in referencing and their confidence in performing assignment preparation tasks that can help them avoid claims of inadvertent plagiarism.

History

Journal

Higher education research & development

Volume

33

Pagination

1180-1193

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

0729-4360

eISSN

1469-8366

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, Taylor & Francis

Issue

6

Publisher

Routledge: Taylor & Francis