Hi All
One way of reducing the problem is to highlight the advantages of the
system to the students. Firstly, by running their materials through
TurnItIn, they are protecting their own work against plagiarism by
anyone else. Secondly, Turnitin can be used as a tool to teach the
issues around plagiarism - actually demonstrating it to the students,
and showing how it helps to ensure that the work submitted has not
inadvertently plagiarised someone else's work. (Working on the
assumption that a large amount of plagiarism is inadvertent.)
At my previous university, some staff encouraged students to load their
assignments in, prior to official submission, to ensure that they hadn't
plagiarised. The staff did not check earlier submissions, so the
students were able to correct their stuff before final submission.
(Yes, there was always a small amount of "tweaking" to get around the
system, but mostly, it was successful - especially because, when
students disagreed, they would raise the issue in discussions, and it
could be explained to them in more detail.
(As a rule, whenever a new technical (or other) system is introduced,
the most important question to answer is "What's in it for me?" - and
the "me" must almost always never be the provider, rather the user (at a
university, usually staff AND students)).
Regards
Ken
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Ken Masters
IT Health Education
http://www.ithealthed.com
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> Subject: Students refusing to put work through turnitin
> From: Sue Gill <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, June 17, 2009 1:24 pm
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> Dear Colleagues
> I'd be very grateful to if there are is any resource which details how colleagues/other institutions approach the issue of students who refuse to allow their work to be submitted via turnitin or similar, and whether you're aware of any cases where there is legal support for this refusal. I've been asked the question and realised I had no data to back up my personal views, so any help would be much appreciated!
> Thanks very much
> Sue
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