Page guide: Home > Resources > Mini-Projects > Details of Completed Projects > PiSA - Plagiarism in Statistics AssessmentPiSA - Plagiarism in Statistics Assessment(Started: - , Completed: Oct 2007)
Project
Leaders: Penelope Bidgood (Kingston University), Neville Hunt (Coventry
University), Bradley Payne (Nottingham Trent University) and Vanessa
Simonite (Oxford Brookes University)
Project SummaryAlthough plagiarism identification techniques are developing and are appropriate in many disciplines, they do not adequately address some important learning outcomes in statistics e.g. the ability of students to analyse a set of data appropriately and report results effectively. However, giving students the same data to analyse has serious risks of plagiarism, either in the analysis, or in the reporting. Group work, which is used to give students opportunities to develop team skills, has its own plagiarism problems. Various strategies have been developed by some lecturers to try to minimise the possibility of plagiarism in statistics e.g. giving each student a unique random sample from a larger data set or developing methodologies to allocate marks fairly in group work. The Plagiarism in Statistics Assessment (PiSA) project aimed to: survey HE lecturers in statistics to find out what methods of assessment and strategies to deter plagiarism are being employed currently; identify elements of good practice; and, disseminate findings widely.
Project Resources1. PiSA Project Website. Available via:
http://mathstore.ac.uk/projects/index.shtml#pisa
[Accessed 01.02.08]
http://mathstore.gla.ac.uk/cms/index.asp?recno=52
[Cannot access 18 Oct 2007].
2. "PiSA - Plagiarism in Statistics Assessment" by Penelope Bidgood, Neville Hunt, Bradley Payne and Vanessa Simonite. Article published in MSOR Connections Feb 2007:
http://www.mathstore.gla.ac.uk/headocs/Bidgoodetal.pdf
[Accessed 25.02.08]
3. PiSA discussion list on JISCmail. Available via:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PISA.html
[Accessed 25.02.08].
4. PiSA – Plagiarism in Statistics Assessment: Report of a project funded by the HEA Maths Stats & OR Network and the RSS Centre for Statistical Education (2007)
[Final Report]. Available via:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/~nhunt/pisa.pdf
[Accessed 25.02.08].
5. “The PiSA (Plagiarism in Statistics Assessment) project” by Penny Bidgood, Neville Hunt, Brad Payne and Vanessa Simonite. Published in MSOR Connections Feb 2008, p 19-23. Available via:
http://www.mathstore.gla.ac.uk/headocs/8119_bidgood_p_etal_pisa.pdf
[Accessed 25.02.08].
Related Resources1. JISC iPAS – JISC Internet Plagiarism Service:
http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/ [Accessed 25.02.08].
2. Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service (AJAIS):
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/academic_integrity [Accessed 25.02.08].
3. Managing Effective Student Assessment:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/assessment/mesa [Accessed 25.02.08].
4. Centre for Learning & Teaching – Plagiarism:
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/clt/resources/plagiarism.htm [Accessed 25.02.08].
