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De-plagiarising your assessment: a one day workshop aimed at those teaching in Business-related disciplines. This workshop stresses the role of assessment in dealing with student plagiarism.

The relevant literature and much anecdotal experience tells us that business students frequently find or copy or share their work – perhaps even more readily than students in other disciplines. They are certainly well represented in any institutional statistics on cases managed each year. Assessment alone cannot address these issues. An effective approach will need to combine other actions beside rethinking assessment. You also may need to review student induction, develop students’ skills, introduce varied detection strategies and perhaps even rewrite your policies. Nevertheless, assessment is a key component to any effective school- or institutional-level strategy. In this one day event, the focus is first on the overall programme design. It offers suggestions as how you might ensure students are aware of their responsibilities for submitting their own work. Do they have the skills to do the required work and if not, how can you check they are developing them and intervene if they are not? A second strand will be about assessment tasks. The workshop will cover ways to design assessments where students must make rather than fake their answers. This is important because when students do their own work, they do their own learning. The workshop is lead by Jude Carroll, Deputy Director of ASKe, a Centre for Excellence in assessment standards based at Oxford Brookes University. She has spent many years investigating student plagiarism and is the author of A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education, currently published by the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. Jude runs workshops nationally and internationally on a range of topics linked to deterring student plagiarism.

For more information on this event

See below for the following presentations in pdf format:

• Opener: Locating assessment in a holistic approach to student plagiarism (Jude Carroll)
• Session 2: Course design and assessment strategies for dealing with student plagiarism
• Session 3: Course design and assessment strategies for dealing with student plagiarism (Jude Carroll)

Opening session

Session 2

Session 3