The effectiveness of direct-instruction and student-centered Teaching Methods on Students' Functional Understanding of Plagiarism

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-279

  Moniz, Richard ^a   Fine, Joyce ^b   Bliss, Leonard ^b  

^a Johnson and Wales University   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic dishonesty; Assessment; Constructivist; Information literacy; Plagiarism; Teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449585130     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691310802258174     Document Type: Article

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