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- 1. Experiencing that Eureka moment! Using Turnitin as a formative learning tool to enhance students’ academic literacies http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/mariakonnikova/2014/05/cre ativity-insight-psychology-studies.html
- 2. • Tackling ‘troublesome knowledge’ • Adopting a ‘low stakes’ approach • Embedding a new culture • Experiential opportunities for students • Exploring new models of assessment • Conclusions and recommendations http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity
- 3. Tackling ‘troublesome knowledge’ (Meyer and Land, 2003) ‘Tutors in higher education today are encouraged to ensure that appropriate feedback is provided to students on assessed work in a way that promotes learning and facilitates improvement.’ (QAA, General Principle 2)
- 4. Embedding a new culture Holistic approaches to academic integrity Shift from seeing Turnitin as a tool to ‘catch and punish’ students http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity
- 5. Adopting a low stakes approach (Macdonald and Carroll, 2006) Shift in focus from not just how to avoid plagiarism , but why you should avoid plagiarism
- 6. Experiential opportunities for students Key aspects of learning and teaching in the visual arts “we used Turnitin with a sample of our written work. It was really good because I could see the areas I had plagiarised in a different colour…I thought this was really good especially as it relates to our studio practice” (3rd year student, UCA) http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity
- 7. Experiencing the Eureka moment Helping to reduce the following: • Plagiarism in your own work • Highlighting over reliance on one source • Citation errors • Textual borrowing http://registrarism.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/turnitin-logo.gif?w=300&h=143
- 8. Conclusions and recommendations • Integrated learning development • Staff and student training • Staged academic writing tasks • International students perspectives
- 9. Any questions? Annamarie McKie amckie@ucreative.ac.uk http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/annamarie-mckie- uca
- 10. Any questions? Annamarie McKie amckie@ucreative.ac.uk http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/annamarie-mckie- uca
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- I agree with Mary's comment in the THE article that Turnitin is a visually effective way of demonstrating inappropriate source use - particularly with students who are new to our academic writing conventions and/or are users of English as an Additional Language. I’m also a GradeMark fan and use it on all my assignments. I've not found any published evidence that students use Turnitin to 'beat the system', and several studies suggesting it doesn't - e.g. Hunter, A. (2012) ‘Text comparison software for students’: an educational development tool or quick ‘text checker’ – examining student use and perceptions of value. Fifth International Plagiarism Conference [online]. July 16-18, the Sage, Newcastle. Available at: http://www.plagiarismadvice.org (Accessed 23 September 2013). Stappenbelt, B. and Rowles, C. (2009) The effectiveness of plagiarism detection software as a learning tool in academic writing education. 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI) [online]. 28–30 September 2009, University of Wollongong, NSW Australia. Available at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=apce (Accessed 23 June 2013). Wright, D., Owens, A. and Donald, N. (2008) Making the case for multiple submissions to Turnitin. Third International Plagiarism Conference [online]. June 23-26, Northumbria University, Newcastle. Available at: http://www.plagiarismadvice.org (Accessed 23 September 2013). Of course, Turnitin ORs have many limitations. One not mentioned in this thread (so far) is the database – coverage is far less complete in certain subjects (e.g. Visual Arts, English Literature), and doesn’t include nested content (e.g. Yahoo Answers), so the OR may engender a false sense of security in students who have copied from such sources. And as Diane says, while it demonstrates inappropriate practice, it doesn’t teach the skills. Like others, I’m concerned that over-use of Turnitin will encourage a mechanistic approach to writing. So I do wonder why some institutions make students run all their written assignments through Turnitin prior to submission – may that not afford this helpful-but-limited software a status it doesn’t deserve? Best, Carol
- Meyer and Land ideas on troublesome knowledge and threshold concepts…Represents a transformed way of understanding/interpreting Learning to think…metacognition The student is perforce required to venture into new places, strange places, anxiety-provoking places . This is part of the point of higher education. If there was no anxiety, it is difficult to believe that we could be in the presence of a higher education. (Barnett 2007: 147)
- Work of the university academic integrity group in terms of shaping culture
- Why we adopted a low stakes approach
- Plagiarism and originality might be viewed as contested terms
- Plagiarism and originality might be viewed as contested terms