The use of Turnitin across UU is still relatively new although it's been
used fairly extensively in a few schools over the past couple of years.
Mine is one of these and to date our recommended default is not to allow
students access to their reports, primarily due to concerns that they
could "learn to beat the system".
However, this year we suggested that students should be allowed to
access their reports for, and only for, their first piece of submitted
work, a short essay as part of a small group tutorial. This seems to me
to be a reasonable compromise but we've not yet followed up on the
problems/benefits in any detail.
Sandy Steacy
Jude Carroll wrote:
>>> Dear Adrian,
>>>
>
> I am interested, too, Adrian and keen to explore the various ways it might
> be used. I know every time this question comes up, Suzanne Ryan in
> Newcastle, Australia reminds us again that their students have been using
> it for years. And so have UK people: Maybe have you had a look at your
> colleagues' work at Manchester Met on using Turnitin....
> http://www.ltu.mmu.ac.uk/ltia/issue10/martin.shtml
> and a more recent paper to the JISC June 06 conference.
>
> Several replies have already mentioned whether students seeing the report
> will mean they know what is there..... I know that one colleague in
> Southampton feels they should not see the report lest they realise its
> limits.
>
> Here at Oxford Brookes, we have several examples of courses where students
> have controlled and teacher-moderated access to Turnitin reports.
> 'Controlled' in that the teacher chooses when they can submit drafts, how
> often and with what time lapse between submission and report.
> 'Teacher-moderated' in that the student must review and make sense of the
> report on their draft with a teacher in a tutorial.
>
> The issue of student use is neither settled nor resolved in my
> institution. Individual people have strong views pro- and anti- student
> use - some arguments based on a pedagogic rationale and some on just
> gut-feelings that it's 'teaching them to cheat'. Full stop. I am hoping
> that by carefully tracking and monitoring the current applications, we can
> show the impact and begin to build a case, one way or the other. One
> student comment that sticks out in my head already from evaluating the use
> of Turnitin..... an international student saying 'It takes away the fear'.
> I personally can't learn very well when fearful so taking fear away seems
> good but we need to know fear of what? More work to do, I think.
>
> Of course, once the access opportunities are around, there is a need for
> protocols and systems. What sorts of student use is acceptable?,
> consequences for unacceptable behaviour? etc. I'd be interested in how
> many institutions have such protocols.... or are developing them.
>
> Jude Carroll
>
>
>> I'd be interested to know how many institutions allow students to access
>> Turnitin themselves to check their work for unintentional plagiarism. Is
>> this commonplace?
>>
>> Adrian
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