{"id":3348,"date":"2013-02-14T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2013-02-15T20:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:01:35","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The value-added scores also vary between years. A teacher who obtains a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking the following year. There will continuously be instability in these rankings, some of which will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes.<\/p>\n

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

No measure is faultless, but the approximations of value-added and other \u201cgrowth models,\u201d which try to separate the \u201ctrue effect\u201d of a particular teacher via his or her students\u2019 test scores, are disturbingly prone to error in any given year. Economist at New York University, Sean Corcoran, examined the teacher assessment systems in Houston and New York City.<\/p>\n

Example 3: Plagiarize<\/span> 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

He discovered that the mean \u201cmargin of error\u201d of a teacher from New York City was plus or minus 28 points. Thus, a teacher who has tiered at the 43rd percentile contrasted to his or her contemporaries may perhaps be anywhere between the 15th percentile and the 71st percentile (Ravitch 271).<\/p>\n

Example 4: Properly paraphrase<\/span> 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

Although there is no way to properly evaluate a teacher, the value-added and other variations of \u201cgrowth models\u201d are especially detrimental and prone to error\u2014regardless of the year (Ravitch 271). For example, Sean Corcoran, an esteemed economist at New York University, carefully assessed the systems used to evaluate teachers in a number of public schools consisted within both New York City and Houston, Texas districts (Ravitch 271).<\/p>\n

Example 5: Properly paraphrase<\/span> 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

Because of how the system essentially functions, there is a strong likelihood that there will be no stability in teachers\u2019 rankings (Ravitch 271). Fundamentally this means that although a teacher may receive one particular ranking in his or her first year, the teacher is most likely not going to receive the same ranking the ensuing year (Ravitch 271). Due to this sort of instability, only some of the rankings will truly \u201creflect \u2018real\u2019 performance changes\u201d (Ravitch 271). Consequently, the system is incredibly faulty and it is no longer a system evaluating teachers\u2019 performances\u2014rather, a system that evaluates the teachers\u2019 luck (Ravitch 271).<\/p>\n

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Works Cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System. <\/em>New York: Basic Books, 2011, pp. 270-71.<\/p>\n

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