Grade or Ungrade?
For various reasons, institutions or teachers might choose to shift from traditional grading to ungrading methods. Some of those reasons are that they think ungrading is more equitable, less biased, and rightly focused on learning rather than grades. Perhaps three of the most [read more...]
Resources
Copyright and Educational Use: Do you know the rules?
“If it’s an educational use, then it’s fair use.” Perhaps you’ve heard teachers or students say something like that, or maybe you’ve even said or thought it yourself when considering whether or not to use copyrighted material. If so, you’re not [read more...]
Checking the Plagiarism Checkers
2020-02-05Checking the Plagiarism Checkers
What those Similarity Reports might not be telling you...
Plagiarism is not a new phenomenon in education, but the widespread use of plagiarism checking tools by students, teachers, and institutions is fairly recent. It used to be up to teachers to discover [read more...]