1. A study of over 9 million student papers found that 18% contained content from paper mills and cheat sites, a 4% increase from previous years.
2. The most popular sources students used were Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, and Enotes, however these sources have weak academic validity.
3. Oppapers.com, Essaymania.com, and Antiessays.com were among the top 10 cheat sites found in student papers.
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Наталья Анатольевна Буре, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, выступила с презентацией на Ш НПК "Дистанционное обучение: Взгляд из настоящего в будущее", 2-4 июля, 2013 г.
Открытый урок в рамках проекта "Дети учат детей" компании "Дистанционный репетитор" по математике на английском языке "Длина окружности и площадь круга", который состоялся 20 апреля
Anna Osankina: Можно ли научить санскриту дистанционно? Nina Lyulkun
Анна Владимировна Осанкина, репетитор компании "Дистанционный репетитор" ознакомила участников дистанционной встречи Ш научно-практической конференции "Дистанционное обучение: Взгяд из настоящего в будущее" с интересной темой: "Можно ли научить санскриту дистанционно? (Из опыта онлайн-учителя".
Study results from Dulcinea Media showed that middle and high school students were not adequately prepared to effectively do research online. This covers the study results as well as steps through the process of teaching students proper online research techniques.
Anna Osankina: Можно ли научить санскриту дистанционно? Nina Lyulkun
Анна Владимировна Осанкина, репетитор компании "Дистанционный репетитор" ознакомила участников дистанционной встречи Ш научно-практической конференции "Дистанционное обучение: Взгяд из настоящего в будущее" с интересной темой: "Можно ли научить санскриту дистанционно? (Из опыта онлайн-учителя".
Study results from Dulcinea Media showed that middle and high school students were not adequately prepared to effectively do research online. This covers the study results as well as steps through the process of teaching students proper online research techniques.
The Digital Research Process and Student “Satisficing”: How writing centers a...Jennifer Colby
All parties whose goal is to create better student writers should work together to share knowledge and resources. By providing more assistance to students during the research phase of the writing process through collaboration with the library’s research services, the writing center can help to build student knowledge of the research process. This will save the student time, availing her more time to become a better writer- a more confident writer able to write a better paper. If students feel confident in their approach to research they might aim for the best-achievable result instead of merely satisficing.
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The internet is filled with many sites and many options, and to think that each everyone is credible would just be foolish. The importance of considering one’s sources and making sure their reliable is one in which we as graduate students need to take to heart. As a graduate student one needs to look into the research they find and make sure that it comes from an authoritative site, has additional sources that back up their data, and lastly that there isn’t bias in the research that’s being done (Driscoll & Brizee). If these things aren’t done correctly, then one’s work will be open to scrutiny, and one's own additional research will be flawed, going to show that taking the extra time to look into one’s own sources is critical when it comes down to doing proper research. With this in mind as graduate students and aspiring innovators in our fields, it’s our due diligence to look into and evaluate every one of our sources to make sure they’re reliable and unbiased.
Driscoll, D. L., & Brizee, A. (n.d.). Welcome to the Purdue OWL. Retrieved May 10, 2018, from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/553/
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Credibility, reliability, and unbiased work are some of the basic and fundamental attributes of an accomplished and relevant research work. They provide not just the authenticity, the believability, the assertion, and the academic postulation and conclusion of a research but the acceptance of such work as an expansion of knowledge and greater contribution to the academia. In the academic community, when these qualities are lacking, the consequences are dire and would be considered a massive set back to the community and a loss of credibility on the part of the researcher, in some cases they are just ethical misconducts. It is therefore overwhelmingly important for researchers to meticulously and stringently evaluate and re-evaluate sources for authenticity. It is catastrophic for a research work to be found misleading or outright false. The reasons for sources verification abound to ensure that research works are true, factual and evidence based and can be used as viable tool to expose all and sundry to workable and functional information and knowledge. The need for transparency in both research development and public dissemination calls for the establishment of guidelines designed to orient authors as regards publication requirements (Tavares, 2011).
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We currently live in a time in which a world of information is at our technological fingertips. It is exciting, it is informative, helpful and educational, however, it can also be a web of misinformation and prevalent bias. Not all information and research found on the internet is held to the same standard of cross-referencing, a review process and screening process that is used in a scholarly publications. When con.
"OER Research Hub Overview" was presented by Beck Pitt at Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Kamloops, B.C. Canada on 26 May 2015.
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1. Study Synopsis #13 Swanson 1
Study Synopsis: The Source in Student Writing – Secondary
Education
Andree C. Swanson, EdD
http://www.edutopia.org/
Turnitin conducted a study in 2011-2012 to examine the secondary
sources that students use in their written essays. “It is based on an analysis
of over 44 million content matches from more than 9 million student papers”
(Turnitin, 2013, p. 3).
KEY FINDINGS
The key findings from the study were:
1. “Students are relying on sources that have weak academic validity”
(p. 3).
2. “Most troubling, 18% of content matches come from paper mills and
cheat sites” (p. 3). In fact, the statistics showed that there was a 4%
increase in the use of paper mills and cheat sites (p. 5)
3. “Secondary student sources vary considerably from the sources higher
education students use in their writing” (p. 3).
4. “Educators should consider taking time to teach students how search
engines work and how to evaluate and judge the quality of online
content” (p. 3). I find this appalling! I think this statement assumes
that we, as educators, do not teach our students how to use search
engines. But, you can only spoon feed students so much! When
students have waited to the last minute, for whatever reason, they
might turn to whatever they think will help them get the page length,
etc.
2. Study Synopsis #13 Swanson 2
POPULAR SOURCES
The most popular Internet sites are listed below, with Wikipedia
remaining in the number one position.
1. Wikipedia
2. Answers.yahoo.com
3. Enotes.com
4. Answers.com
5. Oppapers.com (a paper mill) – personally, I find this to be a very
popular source and it disturbs me to find my name on many papers
as the instructor.
6. Scribd.com
7. Slideshare.net
8. Essaymania.com
9. Shmoop.com
10. Medialibrary.org
Many students are citing blogs, not realizing that these are mostly
filled with opinions.
PAPER MILLS & CHEAT SITES
Educators are debating the value of Wikipedia or SlideShare.net.
Some educators recommend using Wikipedia to get an overall idea on the
topic, but then recommend using a primary source on the topic. However,
educators agree that cheat sites are just not acceptable… period (p. 8).
Table 1. Top Ten Cheat Sites
Number Top Cheat Sites Number of Matches in
Turnitin
1 Oppapers.com 1,245,097
2 Essaymania.com 932,709
3. Study Synopsis #13 Swanson 3
3 Antiessays.com 798,557
4 123helpme 794,807
5 Allfreeessays.com 604,413
6 Bignerds.com 534,955
7 Slashdoc.com 526,152
8 Customessaymeister.com 525.242
9 Novelguide.com 410,964
10 Termpaperslab.com 302,811
This table represents the top 10 cheat site and paper mills that appear in student work.
Roughly, 18% of all matches on Turnitin come from cheat sites. “To put it
bluntly at least 18% of all sources used in secondary education papers are
plagiarized” (p. 8)
SHOPPING SITES
Want to get a better understanding of what was presented in a
textbook or another source? Go to Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble and read
the reviews that the authors and readers write. This is where our higher
education students are going for information.
CONCLUSION
This is battle that will never be won. Circumstances will always tempt
even the best student to take a short cut here or there. It is our
responsibility to ensure that we are educating are students in the proper
method of research and that they use and cite the right sources when on the
web.
Reference
Turnitin. (2013). White paper: The sources in student writing – Secondary
education. Oakland, CA: iParadigms, LLC.