Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff (HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany)
- Description: „Plagiarists beware – we use software!“ Many universities attempt to coerce their students into compliance with good scientific practice with the use of plagiarism detection software. And there are many systems that offer such services. They suggest a fast, cheap, and easy way to winnow out the plagiarists from the honest authors. But do they work as promised? Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, professor for media and computing at the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin has been testing plagiarism detection systems since 2004 and has published widely on the topic. In this fourth test series that was just completed at the end of 2010 26 systems out of 47 available systems were closely examined. Particular focus was given to seeing how well the systems detect a known amount of plagiarism, and how they react when offered original material. In this workshop the results of the most recent test - and the test
of the five top systems against the doctoral thesis of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the German minister of defense who was forced to step down because of plagiarism in March 2010 - will be presented.
- Duration: 240min
- Price: 50 Euro (including drinks/cookies/cake)
- Language: English. If there are only German speaking participants, it will be held in German.
- Workshop prerequisite: none, it is possible to use own laptops
Prof. Dr. Donald L. McCabe (Rutgers Business School, USA)
- Link to the personal page
- Link to the Center of Academic Integrity
- Description: Utilizing the two major databases of empirical evidence on cheating among college students that have been developed in the United States, this workshop will discuss changes in student attitudes about cheating, their willingness to engage in academic dishonesty, and changing methodologies for doing so with the introduction of various electronic technologies – most especially the Internet. Bowers (1964) collected the first major database on cheating in colleges in the U.S. in the early 1960s with his sociologically driven study of cheating at 99 different institutions, involving over 5,000 students in the U.S. McCabe and his colleagues (1993) have been studying the issue of academic dishonesty in the U.S. since the early 1990s and through the generosity of Bowers have re-computerized his original database. In addition to looking at explicit changes over the twenty years of their own research, they are able to compare their results to Bowers, in many cases using the same questions as Bowers did, informing an almost fifty year perspective on academic dishonesty among U.S. college students. McCabe’s database now includes over 200,000 students world-wide and over 20,000 faculty. This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to learn what is in these databases and how they may access some of this information for their own research purposes.
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Price: 5 Euro (including drinks/cookies/cake)
- Language: English
- Workshop prerequisite: none
Prof. Dr. Donald L. McCabe (Rutgers Business School, USA)
- Link to the personal page
- Link to the Center of Academic Integrity
- Description: McCabe has been surveying students about academic integrity for twenty years now - over 200,000 in total to date. Although an underlying objective of his work has been to help schools enhance the level of academic integrity among students, no single strategy has emerged as the right answer for everyone. Interventions ranging from plagairism detection software such as turnitiin.com to more comprehensive community-wide approaches such as honor codes (a popular approach in the United States at one time) have been mentioned by students and faculty as possible approaches - each with their own issues and strengths - and some feel no change is needed in spite of some evidence of ever-increasing levels of academic dishonesty - plagairism, in particular. This workshop will ask participants to discuss and review these major approaches and to identify their strengths and weaknesses as possible approaches to be used in Europe. In the U.S., although it will be very difficult to achieve, McCabe feels fundmental honor code strategies are the only menaingful long-term approach.
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Price: 10 Euro (including drinks/cookies/cake)
- Language: English
- Workshop prerequisite: none
Dipl. Psych. Carola Grunschel (Abteilung für Psychologie, Universität Bielefeld) und Dipl. Psych. Justine Patrzek (Abteilung für Psychologie, Universität Bielefeld)
- Link zur persönlichen Seite/Link to the personal page
- Link zum Projekt/Link to the project
- Beschreibung: Akademische Prokrastination, das Aufschieben von Studienaufgaben, ist unter Studierenden ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen. Einige Studierende erleben aufgrund von akademischer Prokrastination negative Konsequenzen im Studium (z.B. Leistungseinbußen, Verlängerung des Studiums). Zudem wirkt sich die „Aufschieberitis“ ungünstig auf ihr Wohlbefinden aus (z.B. schlechtes Gewissen, Unzufriedenheit). Professionelle Beratung und Hilfestellungen können gezielt zu einer Verringerung akademischer Prokrastination und ihrer negativen Folgen eingesetzt werden. Ziel des Workshops ist es, StudienberaterInnen und Lehrende mit Hilfestellungen vertraut zu machen, um betroffene Studierende bei der Überwindung von akademischer Prokrastintion zu unterstützen. Dazu erfolgen im Rahmen des Workshops: - eine Einführung in das Thema „Akademische Prokrastination“, - die Vorstellung eines Fragebogens, durch den ein tiefer Einblick in das Prokrastinationsverhalten von Studierenden möglich ist, - die Vorstellung eines fünfwöchigen Gruppentrainings, das an der Universität Bielefeld gegen das Aufschieben im Studium entwickelt und umfassend evaluiert wurde - sowie die Durchführung von vielfältigen praktischen Übungen aus dem Training mit den Workshopteilnehmern.
- Dauer: 4 Stunden
- Preis: 30 Euro (inklusive Mittagessen, Getränke, Kekse& Kuchen)
- Sprache: Deutsch
- Workshop-Vorraussetzungen: keine
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