Instructional Technology Survey

Exit Survey

Your gender:

Male

Female

Highest level of education achieved:

High school diploma

Bachelors degree

Masters degree

Current college student

Current high school student

Age:

Which choice does the best job of defining plagiarism?

“I think plagiarism is copying someone else’s work without giving them the credit for it like a copyright law.”

“Plagiarism would be taking something from the internet or a book and crediting the quote as your own work or changing the words around and not sourcing where the article came from.”

“Using other's work, writing, or information that isn't "fair use" without referencing the source.”

“Writing down knowledge you got from a certain source without giving credit to that source.”

“Copying someone else's work without citing their name or the source that you're using.”

Choose the answer that best describes your idea of paraphrasing?

“I think if your paraphrasing what someone has said you put it in your own words and thoughts like when you gossip about something someone says you paraphrase the conversation.”

“Paraphrasing would be shortening the article giving the highlights of the message in your own terms.”

“Taking broad sweeps and general ideas and putting them in your own words. This still requires that you name your sources.”

“Taking a way of saying something and redoing it in your own words”

“Using what a source says in different words.”

What disciplinary actions do you think should happen when someone is caught plagiarizing?

“I think the grade should be lowered by the teacher or penalized in the classroom.”

“Fail the paper, project, potentially even the class.”

“Zero on the project. Expulsion if the plagiarism was intentional.”

“Zero as a grade. Have to drop the class.”

Do you think that if all students were required to take a course on plagiarism the number of students doing so would decrease?

"I believe that if the students were confronted early then they would be aware of the things that can get them into trouble when doing class essays and things."

“I know If I were aware of the things that qualified my actions for being plagiarism I wouldn’t have copied so much from the internet. Like Wikipedia.”

“Yes, understanding what is plagiarizing and how to not do it is very helpful.”

"No. Plagiarism would continue to remain an issue."

Which of these would you consider plagiarism: changing around or substituting words from a source of text OR repeating the text in your own words to explain the source?

“Changing around or substituting words from a source of text.”

“The first option.”

“Probably both are because you need to cite them.”

When does someone else’s ideas become your own?

“I think the originality of thinking the idea first without knowing that they think it too”

“Someone else’s ideas become your own ideas if you believe in them but have your own take on the situation.”

“They never do... Cite, cite, cite.”

“When you develop your own ways of thinking regarding the ideas.”

“When you add to the idea and completely change the wording.”

Do you consider plagiarism a serious offense? Why or why not?

“I can see why it is a serious offense in a college setting and practicing safe school work without plagiarizing is smart, but I also think its isn’t anything we should care about because it is not that big of a deal.”

“Yes. It's cheating. It's using other's work as your own. It's lazy. It defeats the learning process of assimilating information and being able to express it in new ways.”

“It's a serious problem, because someone put in a lot of work to create those ideas and texts.”

“Nah…everybody does it.”