{"id":1122,"date":"2012-02-15T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2012-02-15T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:35:33","slug":"1122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2012\/02\/1122\/","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Example 1<\/strong>: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word.<\/p>\n

Truly, no measure is perfect.\u00a0 But the estimates of value-added and other \u201cgrowth models,\u201d which attempt to isolate the \u201ctrue effect\u201d of an individual teacher through his or her students\u2019 test scores, are alarmingly error-prone in any given year.<\/p>\n

Example 2<\/strong>: Plagiarize the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, without copying it word-for-word.<\/p>\n

Sean Corcoran, who is an\u00a0economist at New York University, has studied the teacher evaluation systems in Houston and New York City. His studies found\u00a0that the average \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a teacher in New York City was plus or minus 28 whole points.<\/p>\n

Example 3<\/strong>: Plagiarize the original text by paraphrasing its structure too closely, and include a citation. Even though you cited it, paraphrasing too closely is still plagiarism.<\/p>\n

Therefore, a teacher who has ranked at the 43rd percentile\u00a0in comparison\u00a0to his or her peers may really be anywhere between the 15th and 71st percentile (Ravitch 270-271).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Example 4<\/strong>: Properly paraphrase from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, and include a citation to the original source.<\/p>\n

Due to fluctuation for value-added scores, teachers will likely receive different scores over several years.\u00a0 One year he or she may have a good ranking, and the next he or she may have a bad ranking (Ravitch 270-271).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Example 5<\/strong>: Properly paraphrase from the original text by restating the author\u2019s ideas in different words and phrases, add a direct quote, and include a citation to the original source.<\/p>\n

Ravitch points out that the rankings will never be stable.\u00a0 Some of the value-added assesments may show accurate performance changes, but many will not.\u00a0 Ravitch says, “it is difficult to trust any performance rating if the odds of getting the same rating next year are no better than a coin toss,” (Ravitch 270-271).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Example 1: Plagiarize the original text by copying portions of it word-for-word. Truly, no measure is perfect.\u00a0 But the estimates of value-added and other \u201cgrowth models,\u201d which attempt to isolate the \u201ctrue effect\u201d of an individual teacher through his or her students\u2019 test scores, are alarmingly error-prone in any given year. Example 2: Plagiarize the … Continue reading Plagiarism exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}