Marking student work electronically, where is the product we want?

“We have been using Turnitin for students to submit work since 2004. However, they still submit a paper copy and we still use a pen to mark it. Increasingly this is becoming frustrating futile …” (more)

[DrBadgr, 15 March]

Plagiarism and Turnitin

“RT @ajcann: Students Turned Off by Turnitin? Perception of Plagiarism and Collusion by Undergraduate Bioscience Students http://t.co/tE8GdHj” (tweet)

[Turnitin, Twitter, 28 December]

A cheat, moi? That’s unfair

“International students may be called plagiarists because of flawed thinking and naive use of software. If the new forms of detection software are to be believed, a sizeable proportion of students are plagiarists – and the worst culprits are international students. But when does poor referencing and an inability to better phrase an original source become cheating – and a reason for serious disciplinary action and the humiliation that goes along with it? An Australian study of Turnitin – a detection service that compares work submitted electronically with the 2.6 billion publicly available pages on the internet and with all the essays it has previously checked – found that 14 per cent of 1,925 essays examined contained examples of plagiarism …” (more)

[Niall Hayes, THE, 29 January]