Question

What are paradigms and world views, and why are they important to understand when studying student development theory?

Answer 1

=Paradigms are, roughly speaking, coherent belief structures. Some people describe them as a lens through which to view the world. A paradigm is a bundle of assumptions about the nature of reality, the status of human knowledge, and the kinds of methods that can be used to answer research questions.

worldview,is a set of (often implicit and often non-rational) beliefs, presuppositions, and assumptions about reality that affect our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, and determine what constitutes valid and important knowledge about the world. Prior science education research has shown that a students’ worldview plays a fundamental role in his or her acceptance or rejection of science.

Plagiarism is a complex issue which has been studied using a variety of frameworks. Some research has focused on student characteristics that predict a greater likelihood of committing
plagiarism, including levels of moral reasoning and selfesteem as well as achievement and motivation orientations (Angell, 2006; Rettinger & Kramer, 2009; Williams, Nathanson, &
Paulhus, 2010). This perspective attributes the decision to plagiarize to characteristics of the students, discounting outside factors that might contribute to the choice to plagiarize.Other research has regarded incidents of plagiarism as being the result of teaching style
(Barnas, 2000) or classroom culture (Brown, 2012; Feldman, 2001) indicating the cause of plagiarism originates outside the student. From these perspectives, instructors are seen as
contributing to students’ beliefs that they can submit another author’s work as their own by not providing an adequate level of rigor in their classrooms or by not checking student work for plagiarism.

plagiarism and world views on a campus is a relatively cost-free and potentially effective way to not only reduce the time-consuming and emotionally

difficult process of dealing with incidents of plagiarism, but to improve student learning as well. Additional studies should be conducted at schools to explore their students’understandings of plagiarism and to determine whether sharing accurate information about incidents of plagiarism
will reduce the likelihood of incidents overall.