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Chi-Yang Wu
T&L816
Dr. Markham
March 27, 2006
Reading Assessment—
“Avoiding Plagiarism”
I.
Student’s Background:
Twelve international students are learning English as a Second Language in a
Speaking & Listening class taught through the Applied English Center at the
University of Kansas. This class is a Listening-Speaking Level 4 class (6 credit
hours)—high intermediate level, according to the AEC. Students need to come to the
class three times a week and each class lasts for 110 minutes.
II.
Assessment Objectives:
We have just started a new topic: Academic Dishonesty for this week. Before
getting into the topic, the teacher provides an in-class reading assignment as an
introduction of plagiarism in terms of how common cheating is around the world.
This in-class reading assignment followed by a multiple-choice reading
comprehension assessment primarily evaluates students’ current reading
comprehension and builds up their reading competence by using strategies, such as
micro-and-macro skills, inference, and vocabulary replacement.
By doing this, students should be able to be aware of their weaknesses while
possibly employing self-correcting and self-learning strategies, and the teacher would
be able to find the best way to target those problems as well.
III.
Procedure:
Students will be given an in-class reading assignment attached with a
multiple-choice reading comprehension worksheet. In general, the teacher would be
telling students to read through the article first to get the gist and then read it as many
times as possible for more specific information. This assessment would be done in 15
minutes. Then, students would exchange their worksheets to check the answers with
each other and discuss the possible questions later in class. The teacher will collect
these worksheets back and check for correctness again.
Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Instruction: Please circle the right answer to the question based on your reading of the
article.
Example:
1. What’s the source of this article?
a. Outside English, May 1998.
b. Inside English, May 1998.
c. Between English, May 1998.
d. Only English, May 1998.
1. What would be the best topic for this passage?
a. The internet—a new easy way to plagiarize.
b. The home computer—an easy way to surf the internet.
c. The on-line papers —a new research method for students.
d. The national poll—a proven evidence for plagiarism.
(macroskill)
2. The word “prestigious” in line 1 is close in meaning to which of the following?
a. Highly respected.
b. Highly populated.
c. Highly degraded.
d. Highly performed.
(vocabulary replacement)
3. The word “plagiarism” in line 10 is close in meaning to which of the following?
a. Disgracing
b. Respecting
c. Cheating
d. Honoring
(vocabulary replacement)
4. In the survey, what percentage of students had used an old paper written in one
class and turned it in to another class without telling?
a. 50%
b. 26.1 %
c. 14.6%
d. 5.6%
(microskill)
5. In the survey, what percentage of students had asked their classmates or friends to
write a paper for them?
a. 50%
b. 26.1 %
c. 14.6%
d. 5.6%
(microskill)
6. According to the passage, students said they had never considered that something
might be wrong with this behavior. What does “this behavior” refer to?
a. Turn in a paper written by a colleague.
b. Use an old paper without telling.
c. Use research service that writes a paper.
d. All of the above.
(macroskill)
7. According to Edward M. White in line 11, what does it mean when his colleague
said he received a paper that he himself had written a generation earlier?
a. His colleague liked the paper before a long time ago.
b. His colleague wrote a paper about generation years ago.
c. His colleague was the author of the paper years ago.
d. His colleague received a paper written by a student years ago.
(inference)
8. From Edward M. White’s saying, we could probably say that
a. the student is as good of a writer as Edward M. White.
b. the student likes to read Edward M. White’s article.
c. the student might use the internet to copy for his paper.
d. the student is good at writing articles about generation.
(inference)
9. According to the passage, “plagiarism comes in many forms,” which of the
following is NOT a form of plagiarism?
a. The use of internet
b. The use of colleague’s paper
c. The use of research service
d. The use of citation
(inference)
10. According to the passage, what does it mean when it says “a new source for
plagiarism has emerged” in line 14?
a. Students use old papers to give them to their instructors without telling.
b. Students use their colleagues’ papers to submit to the instructors.
c. Students copy someone else’s papers and submit it as their own.
d. Students copy electronically-published documents and submit them as their
ideas.
(microskill)
11. The word “proliferation” in line 14 is close in meaning to which of the following?
a. rapid increase
b. rapid decrease
c. adequate increase
d. adequate decrease
(vocabulary replacement)
12. From the passage, before the new source for plagiarism had emerged, what could
we possibly infer about the attitude of existing policies and pedagogies about
plagiarism?
a. encouraged
b. neutralistic
c. discouraged
d. inspired
(inference)
13. The phrase “well versed at” in line 22 could best be replaced by?
a. experienced at
b. in favor of
c. fond of
d. unfamiliar with
(phrase replacement)
14. According to the passage, people even had to go to the library to access Web sites
on various subjects before because
a. they didn’t like to use computer at home.
b. they didn’t have computers connected to the internet at home.
c. they didn’t have any computer at home.
d. they didn’t know how to access information from the computer at home.
(microskill)
15. The phrase “underlying problem” in line 28 could best mean?
a. A problem that may not be easily seen.
b. A problem that may be easily found.
c. A problem that may not be easily solved.
d. A problem that may be easily overcome.
(vocabulary replacement)
Ans: 1.a 2. a 3. c 4. b 5. c 6. d 7. c 8. c 9. d 10. d 11. a 12. c 13. a 14. b 15. a