We invite academic researchers to help us validating a short survey on Textual Borrowing Assessment. Yu (2010) presented a comprehensive definition of textual borrowing:
Textual borrowing is a natural process where students involve reading that is underlying in academic writing. Therefore, textual borrowing should be dealt with not to accuse students of their unorthodox practice, often called plagiarism, but to improve students’ critical use of texts in developing their argument (p. 231).
Due to the researchers' interests, we decided to put the survey link in the ResearchGate.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OHOaS8YTWg-C2BhYUK0JFvAFiIzVmIUKxlB_BhUkBSE/edit
Please feel free to express your ideas on clarity of the survey items and decency of the rating scales.
Dear Moohebat,
I'm interested in it. You can count me on this.
What should I do?
Good luck
Dear Tracey,
This survey consists of eight items that each one has five options. The survey link is open to all followers. We would like the researchers to discuss the survey validity in an open access gateway. Hence, we hope that the RG researchers would help us to achieve a high level of validation. Having revised the survey link, you could provide your comments here, in the ResearchGate, below the question. Your critical attitudes will also be appreciated.
Here is a link to the survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OHOaS8YTWg-C2BhYUK0JFvAFiIzVmIUKxlB_BhUkBSE/edit
Dear Kyle and Maryam,
You can have a look at the survey link and join us in the discussion on validating the survey.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to discussing with you about this survey.
Dear Question Followers,
Unfortunately, your comments and your responses to the survey questions are not visible to me. Honestly, I have had trouble collecting data with the free SurveyMonkey so far. However, upgrading SurveyMonkey is also restricted in Iran. Such problematic issues made me put the survey link in the ResearchGate.
Revising the survey questions and sending your comments either via ResearchGate or my email at [email protected] would be appreciated.
Thanks to all
Hi Moohebat, I looked through the survey and my main feedback is that the statements should be phrased in the positive rather than in the negative. E.g. “the student writes a complete sentence” rather than “the student does not write a complete sentence”. I’m not familiar with this area of research but am wondering if an eight point scale makes it more difficult to distinguish between the levels of agreement regarding the student’s writing attempt. Also, if survey monkey is problematic to use, how about trying Google Forms? All the best for your research!
Hi Sherrie,
Thanks for your informative feedback. I hope the Google Forms team alleviate the problems. I have edited the survey based on your comments. Here is the survey link designing by Google Forms:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OHOaS8YTWg-C2BhYUK0JFvAFiIzVmIUKxlB_BhUkBSE/edit?usp=sharing
Located at the upper side of the survey, "Request Edit Access" button that gives the researchers edit permission.
Dear Maryam,
Thanks for your nice suggestion. I will set up the Word file in a couple of days.
Here is the Word file for your access. We would kindly appreciate the researchers' collaboration. Any comment is welcome.
Thank you for agreeing to participate in this RG question and for your willingness to share your expertise. Let's discuss the researchers' comments:
Sherrie :"Where is the writing to be assessed located? Does the respondent already have access to it, or must it be downloaded from somewhere"?
Following the Sherrie's comment, instances of each borrowing behavior were added to the survey.
Maryam and Kyle also responded to the survey questions.
Question 2 and 6 required my editing.
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