NO FREE RIDE
Thammasat University arts lecturer Pipad Krajaejun did not give his students a free pass — he gave 10 students an F on a recent test after discovering widespread copying.
“They might think I am easy-going and would not be strict with their work. Also, I did not have much time to check; I had only five to 10 days to check all 80 tests and around 160 reports, so the students might have thought I would not read them so carefully,” said the lecturer.
“My test is a take-home test and after I checked them all, it was obvious that they copied from the internet and copied from each other.
"Before they sent me the completed tests, I told them that I am always travelling somewhere so they should please send me a digital file, too. In fact, I wanted to check if the answers in the tests and reports were copied from somewhere else.”
He told his students: “It is deplorable that you guys have the ability but never use it.”
Mr Pipad said he’d given Fs to some students in his previous four years as a Thammasat lecturer, but not for plagiarism. It was usually because they had not completed a test or had dropped out of class altogether.
This semester was the first time he had failed students for plagiarism.
“Before I have seen some copying and I gave a very low score like D. I rarely gave an F to students but this semester there was a lot more than before,” he said.
“Ten students got an F from me this time.”
Afterwards, he said, many called him to apologise.
“I think they understand what I tried to communicate. They called me to say sorry and promised me they will never do this again.”
Mr Pipad believes the problem needs to be tackled well before students reach university.
“Teachers in primary, secondary or high school might not clearly define or explain to their students how to write reports, or create something new or encourage them to be creative,” he said.
He also believes the general culture of education needs to change in order to stimulate students to create, rather than to follow others.
Mr Pipad said the emphasis on objective tests should be reduced, and subjective tests should be increased, to encourage independent thought and analysis rather than simply learning facts by rote to check off in multiple choice tests.
“If we encourage students to write reports in which they have to create new topics it will help them learn to be more innovative,” he said.
NO FREE RIDE
Thammasat University arts lecturer Pipad Krajaejun did not give his students a free pass — he gave 10 students an F on a recent test after discovering widespread copying.
“They might think I am easy-going and would not be strict with their work. Also, I did not have much time to check; I had only five to 10 days to check all 80 tests and around 160 reports, so the students might have thought I would not read them so carefully,” said the lecturer.
“My test is a take-home test and after I checked them all, it was obvious that they copied from the internet and copied from each other.
"Before they sent me the completed tests, I told them that I am always travelling somewhere so they should please send me a digital file, too. In fact, I wanted to check if the answers in the tests and reports were copied from somewhere else.”
He told his students: “It is deplorable that you guys have the ability but never use it.”
Mr Pipad said he’d given Fs to some students in his previous four years as a Thammasat lecturer, but not for plagiarism. It was usually because they had not completed a test or had dropped out of class altogether.
This semester was the first time he had failed students for plagiarism.
“Before I have seen some copying and I gave a very low score like D. I rarely gave an F to students but this semester there was a lot more than before,” he said.
“Ten students got an F from me this time.”
Afterwards, he said, many called him to apologise.
“I think they understand what I tried to communicate. They called me to say sorry and promised me they will never do this again.”
Mr Pipad believes the problem needs to be tackled well before students reach university.
“Teachers in primary, secondary or high school might not clearly define or explain to their students how to write reports, or create something new or encourage them to be creative,” he said.
He also believes the general culture of education needs to change in order to stimulate students to create, rather than to follow others.
Mr Pipad said the emphasis on objective tests should be reduced, and subjective tests should be increased, to encourage independent thought and analysis rather than simply learning facts by rote to check off in multiple choice tests.
“If we encourage students to write reports in which they have to create new topics it will help them learn to be more innovative,” he said.
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