Using text comparison software

The Masters program has adopted, for a trial period, the text comparison software Turnitin (http://www. turnitin.com/). Students are encouraged to pre-check their work in Turnitin before they submit their assessments. This enables students to check that their work is plagiarist free before formal submission. Although assessment tasks in this foundation module are based on personalized research and comment on student's own individual workplaces, they are encouraged to include references to relevant research literature, quoting where appropriate from other sources than their own. Turnitin has become fully integrated into ILN, allowing individual students and teachers to submit and view reports, while whole class submissions are automatically batch loaded into Turnitin, via ILN.

Turnitin automatically searches through all electronic submissions and compares them with a 4.5 billion document database, which includes resources from websites, journals, books, newspapers and previous student assignment submissions. Turnitin uses web crawlers or spiders to search the billions of pages, phrases and words that are electronically stored, in fractions of a second and compares its database with the submitted student assignment. "Turnitin's spiders are adding 40 million pages from the public Web, plus 40,000 students' papers each day" (Tenner, 2005). Any passage or phrase that bears resemblance to submitted student work is noted and displayed in a generated report sheet that color codes the degree and quantity of similarity between the submitted work and other texts in the database. The similarity index (http://www. turnitin.com/) can then be scrutinized to ascertain whether plagiarism has actually taken place.

Turnitin for this purpose has proved a useful tool as it allows students to take responsibility for their own writing, correct citing and referencing. As one student said: 'it has forced me to adopt a much more rigorous approach to citing other people's work ... this more academic disciplinary skill will be very useful to me in future modules on the course'. However, not all students have been positive about the introduction of Turnitin into the course, as one student noted 'I am not sure I want my assignment to be permanently kept in Turnitin databases for others to see'. It should be noted however that only the class lecturer and the individual student have access to individual assignments submitted to the Turnitin database. It is important to set the foundations of good learning early in the MSc[ITE] program along with the use of such tools to assist students in developing sound study practices.

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

متحف الكفيل يباشر صيانة منسوجات تراثية تابعة للعتبة العسكرية المقدسة

العتبة العباسية المقدسة تستذكر مظلومية الإمام الكاظم (عليه السلام) عبر مجلس عزاء

قسم العلاقات العامة يناقش مع منتدى شباب الإسكان إقامة مهرجان تكريم طالبات المدارس المرتديات العباءة في القادسية

سماحة السيد الصافي يدعو إلى توحيد الجهود في تحقيق التراث لضمان الرصانة والدقة وخدمة الساحة العلمية

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

6 فواكة تساعدك على الشعور بتحسّن عند المرض

حفاظا على صحة العين.. هذا أفضل وقت لتناول فيتامين أ

الاستخدام اليومي لسماعات الأذن.. أخطر مما تتصور !

هل توقيت نشاطك اليومي يؤثر على صحة دماغك؟.. العلماء يجيبون

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

ابتكار ألماني قد يغيّر مستقبل صناعة البلاستيك

تحديثات وأرباح عبر المشاهدات.. ما الذي تخطط له "لينكد إن"؟

"الكوكايين الوردي".. مخدر جديد يثير قلق السلطات الأميركية

دراسة: تغيّرات في أسلوب القيادة قد تكشف مبكرا عن الخرف !

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Parents with Learning Disabilities CONCLUSION

PROVISION OF SUPPORT

CARING FOR CHILDREN

EUGENICS AND ETHICAL ISSUES

PARENTING

DISCRIMINATION AND DIVERSITY

THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Parents with Learning Disabilities

Legislation and Learning Disabilities CONCLUSION

LEGAL SAFEGUARDS

MENTAL CAPACITY ACT 2005

THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998