Experiencing that Eureka moment! Using Turnitin as a formative learning
tool to enhance students’ academic
literacies
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/mariakonnikova/2014/05/creativity-insight-psychology-studies.html
• Tackling ‘troublesome knowledge’
• Adopting a ‘low stakes’ approach
• Embedding a new culture
• Experiential opportunities for students
• Exploring new models of assessment
• Conclusions and recommendations
http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity
‘Tutors in higher education today are encouraged to ensure that appropriate
feedback is provided to students on assessed work in a way that promotes
learning and facilitates improvement.’ (QAA, General Principle 2)
Tackling ‘troublesome knowledge’ (Meyer and Land, 2003)
Holistic approaches to academic integrity
Shift from seeing Turnitin as a tool to ‘catch and punish’ students
Embedding a new culture
http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity
Shift in focus from not just how to avoid plagiarism , but why you should avoid plagiarism
Adopting a low stakes approach (Macdonald and Carroll, 2006)
Key aspects of learning and teaching in the visual arts
“we used Turnitin with a sample of our written work. It was really good because I could see the areas I had plagiarised in a different colour…I thought this was really good especially as it relates to our studio practice” (3rd year student, UCA)
Experiential opportunities for students
http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity
Helping to reduce the following:
• Plagiarism in your own work
• Highlighting over reliance on one source
• Citation errors
• Textual borrowing
Experiencing the Eureka moment
http://registrarism.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/turnitin-logo.gif?w=300&h=143
• Integrated learning development
• Staff and student training
• Staged academic writing tasks
• International students perspectives
Conclusions and recommendations
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