 |
 |
Hi, I am a bit concerned that pre-testing ones work for plagiarism with turnitin is only loading the database for more false positives in the future since each submission is cross checked with the others. I found it frustrating to keep finding my test documents again and again. I have since moved to using JISCPAS and used it for a practical where I asked bioscience students to deliberately cheat - create an example of plagiarised work, including lifting text from each other, so we could see how these were picked up. I explained that this was only one of the tools in our armoury. Most were significantly impressed. This was done not in a threatening or accusative way. We were illustrating the lengths that we are going to, to protect the academic integrity of their efforts - what value has a good mark if it can be easily overtaken or diluted by a cheat? With my other hat on here in the LTSN centre for Bioscience, our plagiarism SIG for Biosciences looked at many aspects of plagiarism and one of the most common was collusion, not net-lifting. A tool which could compare the semantics of the text and pull out para-phrasing had been developed commercially and a free limited version was released for HE. Bulk uploads of word files are supported. This is CopyCatch. This is one of the most impressive bits of code (tiny 74k of java) I had seen for a while and we thought it particularly useful. See http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/network/sigs/plagiarism/ Regards, Terry McAndrew C&IT Manager LTSN Centre for Bioscience Room 8.49n Worsley Medical and Dental building University of Leeds LS2 9JT Tel: +44 (0) 113 343 3593 Fax: +44 (0) 113 343 5894 Email: [log in to unmask] http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/ This Subject Centre is now part of the Higher Education Academy ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html *************************************************************************