What plagiarism detection software is available to online instructors?
The university that I work for, they use Turnitin for all of the assignments that are turned in online. Turnitin is the only detection software that I have ever heard of. According to Wikipedia, here are some plagiarism detection software:
Free:
Chimpsky
CopyTracker
eTBLAST
plagiarism-detect.com
Plagiarismcheck
Plagium
SeeSources
Commercial:
Authenticare
Copyscape
Grammarly
Plagiarismdetect
Plagiarismscanner
Turnitin
Veriguide (Plagiarism (Detection))
How can the design of assessments help prevent academic dishonesty?
Dr. Pratt stated that assessments lower the chances of a student to cheat, in that, it ultimately incorporates collaboration. (Palloff) He used the example that when he first starts his class, he informs his students that they can speak to each other during testing, but he did emphasize that they are hard. (Palloff)
I have heard that for example, some of our classes, our course project is divided into weeks for this explicit reason. Each segment of our course project is due once a week, opposed to the whole thing due at the end of week seven.
What facilitation strategies do you propose to use as a current or future online instructor?
I plan to educate my students about plagiarism, to this day, I feel that there are many students that are confused as to the correct way of citing. I realize that students may do this deliberately, especially when they do not undertand a concept. By the same token, I like how in some of our classes, certain assignments are chosen to be run through Turnitin, and that we are allowed to perform this ritual, it tells me that Walden trusts their students to a degree. By Walden doing it this way, it in turn educates the students about plagiarism.
Enlisting the help of a Librarian at the begining of each session is helpful. Perhaps, they can provide an online lecture with plagarism information incorporated. We do provide this service to all of our Instructors who request.
Writing Centers can certainly help - Walden has a writing center that can help with plagiarism education. I would highly encourage to each student, maybe, some need a refresher.
What additional considerations for online teaching should be made to help detect or prevent cheating and plagiarism?
Educate, Educate, and Educate. "...students who received no explicit plagairism instructions plagirized twice as often as those who participated in active instructional such as class discussions of the definition of plagairism, review of Turnitin, com plagarism reports, and exercises requiring students to identify instances of plagiarism in example essays." (Jocoy, 2006, p. 5)
Personally, in all of my years attending online colleges, not once has the above ever been practiced. I still do not exactly how Turnitin works! :(
References:
Jocoy, C., & DiBiase, D. (2006). Plagiarism by adult learners online: A case study in detection and remediation. International Review of Research in Open & Distance Learning, 7(1), 1–15.
Palloff, D., & Pratt, D. (Narrator). (2011). Plagiarism and Cheating [Motion picture]. Laureate Education.
Plagiarism (Detection) (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved April 3, 2011from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism_detection
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I feel it's extremely important to teach our students about plagiarism; otherwise they fall into this pit, some willingly and others unwillingly. If we educate them on what to use and what not to use then I feel they will be better prepared for future work in all subject areas, especially those that require research and research papers.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of breaking the course project up in weeks and do it gradual at a time will help eliminate plagiarism. I feel this way catches those procrastinators that wait until the last minute to do the assignment and when they get stuck, they just look for the best resource that is already done. By doing it every week or few weeks lets all students work at a steady pace and gives them that time to correct things for the final product. Nice post!
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