Jon
I would suggest that if you gave someone a quote and they rephrased that
quote so that a text-matching system such as Turnitin found no
similarity then that person would successfully have put it into their
own words.
If this was one of my students I would probably be happy. if on reading
the new reworded text it was relevant made sense and answered the
question I would probably be happier still and consider they had learnt
something. However, if they then told me they had used Turnitin
repeatedly until the colour went away, I would suggest to them that
there was a much more efficient way of doing it.
Needless to say we don't take steps to stop this. However, I do believe
that the majority of students do not deliberately plagiarise but many do
struggle to understand things fully and express them in their own words.
Those that do deliberately plagiarise do so for a variety of reasons
often because they leave things until the last minute. Turnitin does
have a mechanism for deterring repeated submitters. When you set up an
assignment and allow repeat submissions on the second and subsequent
submission the originality report is delayed 24 hours.
Hope this helps
Eileen
Dr. Eileen Webb
HEA e-Learning Pathfinder Project Leader
Room 12 Pegasus Building
Centre for Learning & Quality Enhancement
University of Teesside
Middlesbrough TS1 3BA
tel: +44 (0) 1642 738028
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Appleton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 February 2008 15:22
To: Plagiarism; Webb, Eileen
Subject: Re: Interesting Turnitin problem
Hi Eileen,
What steps do Teeside take to prevent a student rephrasing and
resubmitting a piece of work repeatedly "until the colour goes away"?
Jon Appleton
On 27/02/2008 15:16, Webb, Eileen wrote:
> Charles
> This is easily solved. If all institutions took the decision to allow
> students to use Turnitin as a formative tool i.e. putting the emphasis
> on prevention rather than detection then your student would have had
the
> opportunity to submit her work herself prior to handing it in for
> marking. Many students are concerned about being accused of plagiarism
> and welcome the opportunity to check the originality of their work
> themselves, your student obviously was.
>
> It is possible to set up a formative Turnitin assignment that allows
> students to see the originality report and also to submit as many
> versions of their work or different pieces of work as they need. If
the
> dates are set appropriately then the pieces of work they submit will
not
> be added to the Turnitin database until after the work is handed in,
and
> marked.
>
> At Teesside we have set up a Blackboard organisation called Academic
> Skills. This contains useful information for students on how not to
> plagiarise and also allows them to submit any document they wish to
the
> Turnitin system and obtain an originality report. Students are also
> introduced to the Turnitin system in certain core modules and given
the
> opportunity to use it in this way.
>
> Regards
> Eileen Webb
>
>
>
> Dr. Eileen Webb
> HEA e-Learning Pathfinder Project Leader
> Room 12 Pegasus Building
> Centre for Learning & Quality Enhancement
> University of Teesside
> Middlesbrough TS1 3BA
>
> tel: +44 (0) 1642 738028
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Charles
> Oppenheim
> Sent: 27 February 2008 14:50
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Interesting Turnitin problem
>
> A student here submitted a Master's dissertation. This was checked
> against
> Turnitin, which noted that the dissertation was virtually identical to
> one
> on the Turnitin database and the item in question was a disertation
> submitted to a different University. The student was told of this;
she
> asked what the other University was. When the student was told, she
> said
> she had a simple explanation. Whilst our University does NOT allow
> students to put their own work on Turnitin (only staff can do that) in
> the
> other University, students CAN test their own work using Turnitin.
Our
> student had a friend in the other University and had asked her friend
to
>
> submit a late draft to Turnitin to see what it might show up. As a
> result, the draft duissertation was added to the Turnitin database,
and
> so
> came up as a match when we, a few weeks later, tested her final
> dissertation against Turnitin.
>
> This demonstrates a risk, I feel, if many HEIs allow their students to
> put
> their own work against Turnitin. I, the Registrar at the other
> University
> and several of my colleagues wasted a lot of time tracking down the
> whole
> story.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this sort of thing?
>
> Charles
>
>
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