How a collaborative approach can better serve our diverse student groups JAYATI CHAUDHURI, DEBORAH L. SCHAEFFER CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES AMRITA MADRAY, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
1. How a collaborative approach can better serve our diverse
student groups JAYATI CHAUDHURI, DEBORAH L. SCHAEFFER CALIFORNIA
STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES AMRITA MADRAY, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY,
NEW YORK
2. Background 14 years experience, research and published on
academic honesty Plagiarism Long Island University/C.W. Post Campus
Adelphi University
3. Outreach/Research 2001: Student anti plagiarism workshops
Faculty support and workshops for faculty, campus, departments
Plagiarism websites faculty and students 2005 - surveyed first year
college students on their understanding of plagiarism 2007
published an article on this study 50 Freshman classes (900
students) 17 participated and surveyed 326 students (1 Composition
Honors, and 16 Composition/Reading, Writing, and Interpretation
classes)
4. Survey Questions and Results
5. Does copying from a book without crediting the source
constitute plagiarism?
6. Current Study Spring 2014 Anti-plagiarism workshop for an
Introduction to Politics Class (19 undergraduates)
7. What is your Native Language? 14, 78% 1, 5% 1, 5% 1, 6% 1,
6% Native Lang. English Native Lang-French Native Lang-Italian
Native Lang-Vietnamese Native Lang-Malaysian
8. Students views regarding plagiarism I strongly disagree with
it. It is wrong (3) N-Eng(2), Fre It is a bad choice for completing
work and should be avoided Its not a big deal. N-Eng Its is wrong
and unfair to those who actually do their work N-Ital Its bad and
should be regulated Uninterested Plagiarism is not positive
9. How do you rate this anti- plagiarism workshop? Some
comments 36.8% 42.1% 21.1% 0.0% Very good Good Fair Poor It was a
little short and it was hard to focus
10. Would you recommend this workshop to your friends? 77.8%
22.2% Yes No I feel like written sources like our grammar books
from Adelphi do an effective job.
11. Findings Students: Confused Students think they know
Clueless (ones with no comments) Synthesizing, paraphrasing,
quoting and citing Research Studies: Future Study: work in
progress: future plans
12. Recommendation High School: Early Intervention- intense
reading, writing, and research curriculum Reading, Writing and
Research competency exam College: Continue to offer anti-plagiarism
workshop Academic expectation and offer help One or two credit core
course that integrates information literacy, research techniques,
citation formatting Collaboration- involve the campus- Mcabe quotes
it takes a whole campus communityto effectively educate student
Librarian assisting faculty in designing writing assignments using
a varity of sources Continually reinforce the rules of writing and
citing Email: [email protected] or 516-877-3579
13. Collaboration with Citation @ CSU Los Angeles Deborah L.
Schaeffer APA Specialist/Librarian California State University, Los
Angeles
14. Background Notes CSU Los Angeles Comprehensive university
Bachelors & masters degree programs in over 60 departments,
divisions, and schools 4,742 bachelors and masters conferred in AY
2012/2013 Teacher credential programs 694 credentials awarded in AY
2012/2013 EdD in educational leadership Joint PhD with UCLA in
Special Education Joint DNP (Doctorate in Nursing Practice) with 2
sister CSU campuses
15. Our Students by Numbers Fall 2013 Full Time Load (12 or
more units) 18,706 (Undergraduates and graduates combined) Average
study load is 12.2 for UG and 9.2 for Grads Combined Part Time and
Full Time Count 23,258 students Largest Enrollment by UG programs
BS in Criminal Justice: 1,203 students Largest Enrollment by Grad
programs MSW Social Work: 254 students
16. CSULA Students Headcount by Race/Ethnicity Hispanic/Latino
59% Asian Americans 17% White 11% Unknown 6% African American 5%
Two or More Races 2% Pacific Islander 0.4% American Indian
0.1%
17. CSULA Federally Recognized Hispanic Serving Institution
(nearly 60% of student population) Asian American and Native
American/Pacific Islander Serving Institution (nearly 18%) Minority
Serving Institution
18. Characteristics of CSULA Student Population Sixty percent
are female Many are first generation college students English may
not be the primary language spoken in the home (more than 100
language are spoken on campus) Nearly 50% of students are
non-native speakers of English
19. Characteristics of CSULA Student Population Many attended
underperforming public high schools More than 50% need to take
remedial English due to poor placement scores Transfer students
also have issues May not have had many opportunities to practice
their writing
20. Citation Difficulties Little experience in paraphrasing and
synthesizing sources General lack of knowledge of a particular
style MLA vs. APA Overall carelessness in mechanics of citation in
the text and the reference page
21. Citation Guidance at CSU Los Angeles Informal prior to
Summer 2005 Reference Desk questions Info sheets with examples on
Library website One-on-one consultations Created APA workshop for
incoming MSW students at request of School of Social Work Focus on
Reference page Became part of formal MSW orientation for several
years; Now given in SW 510A in the first term
22. Citation Guidance at CSU Los Angeles Grows Realization that
BSW students need a foundation in APA style Proposed to School
Director to offer guest presentations Worked together to pinpoint
specific required course SW 301 Writing for Social Work Includes
In-Text focus
23. Citation Guidance Expands Beyond Social Work Word of mouth
and some careful campaigning and targeting Education (masters
level) Nursing Political Science Business Communication Technology
Not all instructors willing to give class time
24. Introduction of Open Workshops Additional learning
opportunities for students in many disciplines APA offered every
term RefWorks, MLA, Plagiarism given on regular basis Several
instructors offer extra credit for attending a Library workshop
Also part of programs such as EOP
25. Where We Are Today Offer multiple APA workshops Separated
out In-Text from the Reference page Shorter, focused sessions on
citing particular types of sources Work with specific classes in a
multitude of departments Hold official office hours in the School
of Social Work on a weekly basis throughout the year
26. Resources http://calstatela.libguides.com/apa
27. Plagiarism workshop Started offering it from Sprint 2014 So
far close to 10 workshops With more than 57 students
28. Plagiarism workshop Definition of plagiarism with examples
Difference between common knowledge & plagiarism Concepts of
plagiarism around the world Reasons shaping influences to this form
of academic dishonesty Paraphrasing, Quotation & Summarizing
with examples Steps of effective paraphrasing
29. Plagiarism workshop Internet plagiarism Internet paper
mills site Plagiarism detection tool Turn-it-in Online
exercise
30. Student composition Yes = 32 No = 25 32 25 0 5 10 15 20 25
30 35 YES NO Are you an undergraduate student?
31. What is your native language? Total 57 responses- English -
34 Spanish - 15 Spanish/English - 2 Cambodian- 1 Korean-1 Cantonese
-1 Vietnamese- 1 Tagalog-1 Chinease-1 59% 26% 3%2%2%2%2%2%2%
English Spanish Spanish/English Cambodian Korean Cantonese
Vietnamese Tagalog Chinese
32. Students views regarding plagiarism It should be avoided in
every assignment or work. Thus, allowing the original developers of
ideas/works to receive credit for their hard work It has been
engrained into me that plagiarism is bad and you must paraphrase it
or cite it in your paper I think it is important to give credit but
I also think teacher should give examples in their classes when
they are giving assignment because a lot of students have trouble
due to all the type of forms of citing sourcesNo
33. Students views regarding plagiarism It is very helpful. I
never fully understood how to properly cite so this helped very
much. I didn't learn anything new, but I did think it was well-
written, well-organized, and well-presented! From Grad Student
34. Would you recommend this workshop to your friends? It is
very helpful. I never fully understood how to properly cite so this
helped very much. I think this should start being a requirement for
incoming students. This would save a lot of students from failing
due to lack of knowledge on plagiarism. 93% 7% Yes No
35. How would you rate usefulness of this workshop? Found it
interesting how professors use turnitin.com to detect plagiarism I
think this workshop should be presented more because it was very
useful. I think this workshop should be presented more because it
was very helpful to me. It made me realize that some of the things
I was doing in my papers that I thought was ok really wasn't. 57%
39% 4%0% Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor
