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Secondary school students’ source use in inquiry project-based learning (PjBL): Working towards avoiding plagiarism and engaging with sources

Abstract

This seminar will first present an anti-plagiarism intervention programme, called UPCC, and its effectiveness in developing junior secondary school students’ understanding of plagiarism and their ability to avoid plagiarism in project-based learning (PjBL); then with an analysis of a corpus of Chinese-medium interim texts collaboratively composed by the students on a group work platform (PBworks), we will show how the learners used and cited sources, in ways that leave room for pedagogical intervention. Implications will be discussed in relation to the design of PjBL, creation of source-use guidelines, in-service teacher education, and future research.

Speaker

Dr Yongyan LI
Associate Professor, Division of English Language Education, The University of Hong Kong

Dr Xiao Hu
Assistant Professor, Division of Information and Technology Studies, The University of Hong Kong

Dr Sam Chu
Associate Professor, Deputy Director of CITE, Head of Division, Division of Information and Technology Studies, The University of Hong Kong

About the Speaker

Dr Yongyan LI is an Associate Professor in the Division of English Language Education. Her teaching focuses on written discourse in English language education and qualitative research methodology. She has published research on reading-writing connections, and academic and scholarly literacy practices.

Dr Xiao HU is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Information and Technology Studies of the Faculty of Education. She obtained her Ph.D. in Information Science and Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Her research and teaching interests include information retrieval, learning analytics, digital libraries, text mining and data science.

Dr Sam CHU is the Head of the Division of Information and Technology Studies, Associate Professor, and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Technology in Education. He has published multiple books and over 200 articles in the areas of IT in education, information science, school librarianship, and knowledge management.