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Crisis on campus : confronting academic misconduct
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Crisis on campus : confronting academic misconduct

Author: Wilfried Decoo; Jozef Colpaert
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After introducing a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with prevention.  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wilfried Decoo; Jozef Colpaert
ISBN: 0262042010 9780262042017
OCLC Number: 47755938
Description: xvii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Wilfried Decoo with a contribution by Jozef Colpaert.

Abstract:

"This book presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After introducing a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with prevention. The book focuses on concrete cases, showing the complexities and ambiguities in dealing with presumed academic misconduct. The book also provides practical advice to both whistle-blowers and those accused of academic misconduct." "The book pays special attention to plagiarism, one of the most frequent but also most complex forms of academic misconduct. It analyzes the various degrees of possible plagiarism, detection techniques, challenges in proving plagiarism, and denial tactics. It also offers advice on how to report and handle cases of alleged plagiarism, both by students and by professionals."--BOOK JACKET.

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Introduction -- 1.1. Finding the right balance -- 1.2. Entering the realm of academic misconduct -- 1.3. The extent of academic misconduct -- 1.4. Changing circumstances and risk factors -- 1.5. Countering and curing -- 2. Detection -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The detection of fabrication and falsification -- 2.3. The detection of text plagiarism -- 2.4. The detection of the plagiarism of ideas -- 2.5. The detection of software plagiarism -- 2.6. The detection of misused connections -- 2.7. The detection of academic make-believe -- 2.8. The detection of possibly deceitful educational software -- 2.9. Conclusion -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Analyzing alleged fabrication and falsification -- 3.3. Analyzing alleged plagiarism -- 3.4. Analyzing the misuse of professional connections -- 3.5. Analyzing the self-promotion of one's own work -- 3.6. Analyzing academic make-believe -- 3.7. Analyzing possibly deceitful courseware -- 3.8. Analyzing the plagiarism of ideas -- 3.9. Conclusion -- 4. Assessment -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Fabrication or not? Falsification or not? -- 4.3. Plagiarism or not? -- 4.4. Can a thesis or doctoral committee be guilty of misconduct? -- 4.5. Can publications become misconduct? -- 4.6. When do research projects become deceptive? -- 4.7. When do educational media become deceptive? -- 4.8. When does ignorance become misconduct? -- 4.9. Assessing hidden motives -- 4.10. Conclusion -- 5. Reporting and handling -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Should one report misconduct? -- 5.3. The whistle-blower -- 5.4. Recommendations for reporting -- 5.5. The institutional response -- 5.6. The accused -- 5.7. The responsibility of editors and librarians -- 5.8. Conclusion -- 6. Prevention -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Constructive measures -- 6.3. Deterrent measures -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 7. General conclusion -- 7.1. My core issues -- 7.2. Final recommendations -- 7.3. A never-ending story -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Cerberus -- A.1. Comparing texts -- A.2. Cerberus text-comparison mechanisms -- A.3. Using the Cerberus program -- A.4. Performance aspects -- A.5. The Cerberus source code -- References.

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