The results of our departmental year-long trial into the joys of Turnitin are revealed in this talk we gave to colleagues in January 2016.

1. Using Turnitin to inform
student progression

2. Hello!
I am Sarah Savage
I teach BTEC ES and Geography A level. You
can find me at @sarahavsavage

3. 1.
What is Turnitin?
Online paperless submission tool that aims to:
Promote Academic Integrity
Evaluate Student Learning
Monitor Student Progress

4. “ …..one of the most widely distributed
educational applications in the world. Turnitin is
used by more than 10,000 institutions in 126
countries around the world….
”Turnitin, 2016

5. How we use Turnitin
in our department
For AS Geography
For A2 Geography
For BTEC Certificate
For BTEC Sub Dip

6. Place your screenshot here
Our
classes

7. AS Geography (E
block)

8. BTEC Y12

9. Why do we use Turnitin?
To reduce unoriginal writing
To save time
To increase the depth and quantity
of our feedback
To map student progression
To lose our own excuses for ‘lost’

10. Reduce unoriginal
writing/plagiarism
A US study of one-third of all U.S. higher education institutions found that over a five-year
*This report analyzes the full population of Turnitin customers at non-profit,
higher education institutions in the United States that began using the service
before January 1, 2011 and remained a customer through January 1, 2013
https://spahp.creighton.edu/sites/spahp.creighton.edu/files/Turnitin_Effectiveness_HE.pdf

11. Plagiarism with our
students
AS Geography week 4

12. Plagiarism with our
students
AS Geography week 12AS Geography week 4

13. Plagiarism with our
students
BTEC Y13 week 1

14. Plagiarism with our
students
BTEC Y13 week 12

15. More plagiarism on
BTEC courses but...
BTEC Y13

16. And also...
BTEC Y13 week 1

17. ...we can easily spot
our repeat offenders
BTEC Y13 week 12

18. Measuring levels of
original content

19. Saving time

20. Saving time
*“ …..reduced their grading time by 31 percent on average compared to
traditional pen and paper methods of grading. If a typical paper traditionally
takes 20 minutes to grade, instructors using Turnitin could grade it in 14
minutes, saving 6 minutes per paper. Projecting this by the eight million
digitally-graded papers in this study would equate to 48 million minutes. That’s
800,000 hours… or 33,333 days… or 91 years!”
*Turnitin, 2016

21. Increasing the depth
and quantity of our
feedback

22. Student engagement
with feedback
*“ …Instructors reported a 46 percent increase in student engagement with
online graded papers. With their marks more legible and the feedback more
thorough, students spend more time reading and digesting instructor feedback
and responding to it. A Turnitin feature that indicates whether or not a student
has reviewed the instructor feedback on the paper strengthens student
engagement. ..”
*Turnitin, 2016

23. Student engagement
with feedback
Typically ⅔ of our students
review our comments

24. Mapping
student progression
By individual By year groupBy class By College?

25. The ‘Gradebook’

26. Mapping student
progression
By individual

27. Mapping student
progression
By class

28. Mapping student
progression By year group

29. Mapping
student progression
By individual
By year group
By class
By College?

30. That’s all lovely
but I don’t think I’ll bother because….
I can mark quicker on
paper...
...but this view is certainly
not one we share, and is not
one supported by 1000s of
teachers worldwide - so
perhaps it is fear of the
unknown holding you back?
I teach Maths/Chemistry
and Turnitin won’t work...
...except in the following Chem
Depts: Warwick, UCL,
Nottingham, King’s, University
of Surrey
...and the following Maths
Depts:
Bath Uni, York Uni, King’s,
University of Surrey
I’m not very good at
technology
If you can work your mobile
phone, you can ROCK
Turnitin. Is it very intuitive in
the most part, and there is
loads of online support, plus
you can ask us, or any other
Turnitin clan members...

31. Using
Turnitin
for
Maths
and
Sciences

32. What next for our
department?
Last year -
marked using
comments
only
This year -
marking using
QuickMark and
Gradebook
Next year -
marking using
QuickMark,
Gradebook
and rubrics

33. “
…..Digital submission holds promise for how we measure and improve
student performance. For the first time, institutions can maintain an
online portfolio of their students’ work to help tailor learning, uncover
trends and improve the performance of both instructors and students.
Terms like “differentiated” and “one-to-one” are surfacing from practices
made possible by online submission and technologies that can distill
meaning from all this information—often called “Big Data.”….
”Turnitin, 2016

34. Thanks!!
Any questions?
You can find me at @sarahavsavage

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