What is it about?
Improving authorial identity is a proposed method for reducing plagiarism in university students. We developed a new measure of authorial identity for use in further research and the classroom, called the SABAS. Development of the SABAS was systematic and resulted in a measure that is more reliable and robust compared to previous measures. The results also inform a model for authorial identity with three aspects: ‘Authorial confidence’, ‘Valuing writing’ and ‘Identification with author’.
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Why is it important?
Current attempts to improve authorial identity are evaluated with a tool that has issues that limit the accuracy of its measurement. The new SABAS measure has improved characteristics due to a systematic process of development and validation. In addition, the studies inform further exploration of student plagiarism.
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Aside from my doctoral thesis in its entirety, this article is the most substantial piece of work to come from my PhD studies. It is the culmination of a lot of work and personal development. Therefore, it is very important to me, particularly because it contributes to discussions on student plagiarism.
Dr Kevin Yet Fong Cheung
Cambridge English Language Assessment
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This page is a summary of: Development and validation of the Student Attitudes and Beliefs about Authorship Scale: a psychometrically robust measure of authorial identity, Studies in Higher Education, April 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1034673.
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