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Apr. 5th, 2006 09:26 amNow here's an interesting essay: Four Reasons to be Happy about Internet Plagiarism
A lot of this article can be summed up as "our way of evaluating students sucks because it has no ecological validity, which is why we find ourselves in the plagiarism pickle in the first place." Which, that's nice and all, but the authors don't really offer alternatives. On the other hand, the analysis they provide in point 4 of the difference between undergrad citations and grownup citations is really good, and I actually feel like I learned something from reading it, or that something I maybe understood fuzzily and implicitly has become explicit. Cool.
On a side note, my aunt is taking a graduate course on student assessment, and she made some comment last weekend about how she'll never look at a test the same way again. I think maybe I need to check out the ed psych offerings...
A lot of this article can be summed up as "our way of evaluating students sucks because it has no ecological validity, which is why we find ourselves in the plagiarism pickle in the first place." Which, that's nice and all, but the authors don't really offer alternatives. On the other hand, the analysis they provide in point 4 of the difference between undergrad citations and grownup citations is really good, and I actually feel like I learned something from reading it, or that something I maybe understood fuzzily and implicitly has become explicit. Cool.
On a side note, my aunt is taking a graduate course on student assessment, and she made some comment last weekend about how she'll never look at a test the same way again. I think maybe I need to check out the ed psych offerings...
