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Case Studies

Early Challenge Essay to tackle Plagiarism

In order to help tackle some problems with plagiarism on a postgraduate programme in the School of Management, an early essay was introduced. This case study from Dr Bruce Rayton provides the background, information on the essay, and the results and advice.

The issue

There were a surprising number of similar plagiarism cases from the MSc students, with ‘explanations’ along the lines of:

“I didn’t know …”
“I did exactly what I did on my first degree.”
“I passed the Academic Integrity Test at 92%, but ….”

Taught postgraduate (PGT) students in the School come with a good first degree from a good university. However, there is a huge variety in their first degree subject and backgrounds. Approximately 80 percent pay overseas fees, and even though some of these students arrive from UK universities, there is a vast range of national educational backgrounds represented on these degrees. Because of the design of these postgraduate programme, students only have two taught semesters in Bath. There is no ‘pass/fail first year’ during which students can learn our ways: all marks count towards the eventual classification of the degree.

The intervention: Managerial Challenge Essay (MCE)

A short academic essay was introduced for the very beginning of the academic year. The 750 word essay is due in week 2 and is submitted online. Here is an excerpt from the instructions to provide some detail:

Managerial Challenge Essay (MCE)

The Managerial Challenge Essay has been designed to identify gaps in your academic writing skills and/or understanding of how to apply those skills within this university’s expectations regarding academic integrity. A key aim is to give you the earliest possible feedback on your academic writing skills, which will cover a range of areas, but demonstrated mastery of reference technique will be essential to the award of credit for this task.

Identify an important managerial challenge facing organizations today and indicate one academic theory that can help organizations as they attempt to meet this challenge. Support your reasoning with reference to at least two articles listed within the Scopus database.

  • Word limit: 750
  • Deadline: 1400 on 12 Oct 2016
  • Submission via Moodle workshop; Feedback returned via Moodle

Feedback was provided with the following:

  • Similarity report (TurnitIn).
  • Feedback from a PhD student on writing style.
  • Feedback from three peers using the Moodle Workshop activity.
  • Pass/Fail determination by Director of Studies.

The essay was introduced in 2015 and the following figure illustrates a 52 percent the decline in the cases of plagiarism (per 100 students) in the 2015/6 cohort relative to the previous year:

MCE drop in cases

 

Challenges & Opportunities

From experience over two years of this essay, the following challenges have been identified:

  • Significant amount of work.
  • Required acquiescence of six unit convenors who uniquely covered the target population.
  • Managing student expectations.
  • Impact of late arrivals & registrations.

However there are also several opportunities to consider further for the future:

  • It has been very useful for establishing/deepening bonds between students on different degree cohorts immediately following induction.
  • This approach could be a useful part of a programme-level approach to assessment.
  • With this is mind, the School could now look to remove some essay-based work from assessment portfolios of programmes.
  • In principle, this approach could be useful for the assessment of other skills that are relied upon across the duration of a programme.
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Flipping: An Introduction

Flipping is a useful case study to use to consider how we may teach the same course, content, and outcomes in a different way. It won’t work for everything, but it raises some useful questions for thinking about your course. This is an introductory briefing about the idea and some considerations for both staff and students.

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Transition to University Mathematics 1: Transition

This is the first of two posts shared to introduce some of the background and theoretical ideas to consider regarding the transition to university mathematics, as well as provide an insight and links to some of the literature and scholarship in this area.

This post focuses on the transition and the specific problems and issues frequently noted for mathematics. The second post discusses some aspects/models of advanced mathematics at university which are particularly relevant to these issues.

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Transition to University Mathematics 2: Maths at University

This is the second of two posts introducing some of the background ideas to consider when looking at the transition to university mathematics. The first post focused on the transition and the specific problems and issues frequently noted for mathematics. This post discusses some aspects/models of advanced mathematics at university which are particularly relevant to these issues.

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Scholarship of Learning and Teaching: First Steps

Collected below are suggested example sources for ideas from the scholarship of learning and teaching. These are not the only sources, but some places to start that might be useful. Included are examples from different types of resources – textbooks, websites, tips/tricks, journals.

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Motivation

Motivation may be a major factor in the approach taken to learning by students. Changing attitudes within the student body, increasing diversity amongst the student population, widening participation, outreach work, fees, and national policy and debates may all mean that the motivations observed by staff shift over time and context. The study of motivation in education (at all levels) is a large field and so presented here is a short summary of some categorisations regarding student motivation from the literature, along with an example question that we can ask about our own students to help understand their differing motivations better.

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Preparing for your First Lecture

Dr John Chew from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath discusses his preparation for the first lecture of a course and the importance of revision to making good first impressions.

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Linking Teaching to our Research

Dr John Chew from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath discusses how he links to his research and that of the department to help motivate the students to think about applications.

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How my Teaching has Developed

Dr John Chew from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath discusses how his teaching has developed and what has helped.

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What is (Classroom) Technology)

Dr John Troyer from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath discusses the broader question of what is technology in the classroom, as part of his thoughts on its use.

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