{"id":5313,"date":"2014-02-17T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2014-02-17T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:52:51","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-exercise-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2014\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-exercise-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexandra Clark\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Education Reform<\/div>\n<div>Feb. 14, 2014<\/div>\n<div>Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 1: Plagiarize any portion through copying.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Every year, teachers get evaluated for their considered effectiveness in teaching and education. These 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. This is unfortunate, as it gives us no real measure of a teacher\u2019s worth to any given student.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 2: Plagiarize any portion through paraphrasing the structure too closely.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A teacher who gets any given ranking in one year will probably receive a different one the next. These rankings will always be unstable, though some will reflect accurate changes in the teacher\u2019s performance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 3: Plagiarize any portion through paraphrasing too closely with a citation to original source.<\/div>\n<div>A teacher who gets any given ranking in one year will probably receive a different one the next. These rankings will always be unstable, though some will reflect accurate changes in the teacher\u2019s performance (Ravitch, 270-71).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 4: Properly paraphrase by restating and citing source.<\/div>\n<div>According to a study conducted by Sean Corcoran on the teacher evaluation systems, teacher\u2019s ratings fluctuate from year to year (Ravitch, 270-71).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 5: Properly paraphrase by by restating and supplementing with direct quote including source.<\/div>\n<div>According to a study conducted by Sean Corcoran on the teacher evaluation systems, teachers\u2019 ratings fluctuate from year to year. According to his findings, a teacher \u201cwho was ranked at the 43rd percentile compared to his or her peers might actually be anywhere between the 15th and 71st percentile&#8221;. (Ravitch, 270-71).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Clark\u00a0 Education Reform Feb. 14, 2014 Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise Step 1: Plagiarize any portion through copying. Every year, teachers get evaluated for their considered effectiveness in teaching and education. These 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2014\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-exercise-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}