Plagiarism Prevention Quiz

Suggested set-up for the quiz: I created this pool of questions to assess students’ understanding of the material in the plagiarism prevention tutorial. The quiz is set up in an online course management system. The online quiz format provides the instructor flexibility in setting up the quiz. For example, one option would be to set up a 10-question quiz that draws, at random, two questions (one True/False and one Multiple Choice) from each of the five sections of the tutorial. I allow students the opportunity to retake the quiz as many times as they want until they achieved mastery. (Students receive a different set of questions with each attempt.) Prior to submitting their quiz, students are informed:

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Question Pool for Plagiarism Prevention Quiz

What is Plagiarism?

True or False: A person can get in trouble for plagiarism only if the person intended to plagiarize.

True or False: If you put someone else’s ideas into your own words and then pass those ideas off as your own, you are committing plagiarism.

True or False: You post a request on Reddit for help generating paper ideas. A person supplies you with an outline of an already written paper. You revise the paper to add your own details. This is a form of plagiarism.

True or False: You find a paper online that is on the same topic as your assigned paper. You go through the paper and rewrite some of the sentences and change out some of the words. This is a form of plagiarism.

3. plagiarism.

4. editing.

4. Over-relying on someone else’s organizational structure.

Which of the following is the best way to protect yourself against plagiarism?

Citing Sources Using APA style

True or False. References in APA style are cited in text with a title-page citation system (e.g., Test subjects who call the scientist mom or dad, p. 2).

True or False: You should cite the work of any individual whose ideas, theories, or research have directly influenced your writing.

True or False: You don't want to have too many quotes in your paper, so you do not put quotation marks around some of the sentences you copied from a source. You cite the source correctly at the end of the paragraph and in your reference list. This is considered acceptable (i.e., not plagiarized).

Which of the following is TRUE about quotations

A ____________ is placed within the text and includes the authors’ last names and the publication year. A ___________ is placed at the end of a paper and includes information on the authors, year, title of the source, and publication data.

1. quotation; citation

1. According to the article, Parents' social networks and beliefs as predictors of parent involvement...

2. According to Sheldon (2002)...

2. According to Anderson and Minke (2007)...

3. According to an article published in 2007 in the Journal of Educational Research...

3. …(Anderson and Minke et al., 2007).

4. …(Anderson & Minke, 2007).

4. Nzinga-Johnson, Baker, and Aupperlee et al. (2009)

How would you correctly cite the following article in parenthetical form at the end of a sentence? Nzinga-Johnson, S., Baker, J. A., & Aupperlee, J. (2009). Teacher-parent relationships and school involvement among racially and educationally diverse parents of kindergartners. Elementary School Journal, 110, 81-91.

You are writing a literature review for your course and need to cite a paper that was written by four authors: M. Baghdady, H. Carnahan, E. W. Lam, and N. N. Woods and published in 2014.  What would your citation look like if you used the 7th Edition of the APA style guide to paraphrase and cite information that came from page 183 of this article?

1. Baghdady, Carnahan, Lam, and Woods (p. 183)

1. M. K. Hartwig and J. Dunlosky (2012, p. 131)...

2. In 2012, M. K. Hartwig and J. Dunlosky stated on page 131, "..."

2. Mehl, Vazire, Ramírez-Esparza, Slatcher, and Pennebaker (2007, p. 82) concluded "…"

3. Mehl & Vazire et al. (2007, p. 82) concluded "…"

1. The Every Student Succeeds Act is an example of a recent policy shift (Executive Office of the President, 2015).

2. The Every Student Succeeds Act is an example of a recent policy shift (Adesope, Trevisan, & Sundararajan, 2017, p. 662).

Paraphrasing Information

True or False: You copy a long passage from a book into your paper, and you change some of the wording around. You cite the source at the end of the passage and again in the reference list. This is a type of plagiarism.

Of the following, which is the best way to avoid plagiarism:

Below is an excerpt from the article: Levenson, M. R., & Park, C. L. (2002). Drinking to cope among college students: Prevalence, problems and coping processes. Journal on Studies on Alcohol, 63, 486-497:

“Drinking to cope is very common among college students and is related to much higher levels of alcohol consumption, episodes of heavy drinking, and levels of both negative and positive alcohol related consequences” (p. 486).

4. Levenson and Park (2002) found that when college students drink to cope, they drink more frequently and more heavily than those who do not drink to cope.

Below is an excerpt from the article: Schuetze, P. (2004). Evaluation of a brief homework assignment designed to reduce citations problems. Teaching of Psychology, 31, 257-259:

3. Increased student confidence in their ability to avoid plagiarism would hypothetically result in an inaccurate perception that they are fully knowledgeable about the complexities involved in proper citations in scientific papers (Schuetze, 2004).

4. According to Schuetze (2004, p. 259), "One danger of increasing students' confidence in their ability to avoid plagiarism is that this overconfidence could leave them unaware that they do not understand the complexities of proper citation."

2. There is a need for university staff to address forcefully the issue of academic integrity during introductory programs and to explain clearly and sympathetically the objective need for honesty in academic life (Bennett, 2005).

3. There is a need for colleges to forcefully address the issue of academic integrity during beginning programs and to explain clearly and sympathetically the objective need for integrity in college life (Bennett, 2005).

1. "Mixed test formats and multiple-choice practice tests produced large effect sizes (g = 0.80 and g = 0.70, respectively)" (Adesope et al., 2017, p. 673).

2. "Mixed test formats and multiple-choice practice tests produced large effect sizes (g = 0.80 and g = 0.70, respectively)" (Adesope et al., 2017).

According to the Plagiarism Prevention Tutorial, which of the following examples would be the best way to refer to this finding in your written work?

1. "Participants in the TE condition (n = 55) outperformed those in the ST condition (n = 57) on both immediate and delayed testing" (Baghdady et al., 2014, p. 185).

Below is an excerpt from the article: Hartwig, M. K., & Dunlosky, J. (2012). Study strategies of college students: Are self-testing and scheduling related to achievement? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(1), 126-134. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0181-y

"As is reported in Fig. 1, self-testing was best reflected by two strategies in Question 12: “test yourself with questions or practice problems” and “use flashcards.” Endorsing the general strategy of testing oneself was significantly related to GPA (gamma = .28, p = .001), whereas using flashcards was not (gamma = −.03, p = .76). This discrepancy between self-testing and flashcards was unexpected and will be addressed in the Discussion section" (p. 130).

4. Hartwig and Dunlosky (2012) note that students often use practice test questions and flashcards as a form of self-testing. As such, Hartwig and Dunlosky expected that both practice problems and flashcards would positively predict grade point average (GPA). Unexpectedly, they found that only the use of practice problems predicted GPA. The use of flashcards did not predict GPA. Hartwig and Dunlosky explored several potential reasons for this unexpected finding within their discussion section.

Making it Your Own

True or False: A key element of citing is that authors must not present the work of another as if it were their own.

Which of the following is not a tip for making a paper “your own”:

1. You should refrain from citing information from other sources.

Which of the following is the best advice for avoiding plagiarism?

1. Make sure that you quote everything from the original source, word-for-word, and cite.

Creating a List of References

True or False: In APA-style, sources are listed alphabetically in the reference list.

1. (year). Title of the work. Last Name, F. M. Publication Data.

2. Title of the work. (year). Publication Data. Last Name, F. M.

2. (2010). Lee, C. How to cite something you found on a website in APA style. Retrieved from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/11/how-to-cite-something-you-found-on-a-website-in-apa-style.html

3. How to cite something you found on a website in APA style. (2010). By C. Lee. Retrieved from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/11/how-to-cite-something-you-found-on-a-website-in-apa-style.html

3. Hartwig, Marissa K., and John Dunlosky. "Study strategies of college students: Are self-testing and scheduling related to achievement?" Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 19, no. 1 (2012): 126-134. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0181-y

4. Hartwig MK, Dunlosky J. Study strategies of college students: Are self-testing and scheduling related to achievement? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2012 Feb 1;19(1):126-34. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0181-y

4. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2005), 41, 48-60. Bruce D. B., Craig A. A., Nicholas L. C., Arlin J., & Benjamin, J. R., Jr. Interactive effects of life experience and situational cues on aggression: The weapons priming effect in hunters and nonhunters. https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2004.05.005

Which of the following is the correct referencing format for an APA style reference if you wanted to cite this article by Wilson et al. (2002)?

While writing a paper, you read an article by Baghdady and colleagues. In the process, you become interested in information that they reference from the book: White S, Pharoah M. Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation. St. Louis, MO: Mosby 2004.

You want to include this information in the paper that you are writing, but you are not able to find the White and Pharoah (2004) book in your university's library collection.

4. If you quote word-for-word Baghdady's summary of the book, including their in-text citation of the book.

Which of the following is the correct referencing format for an APA style reference if you wanted to cite this article by Yong and Lim (2016)?