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Use of Turnitin for peer-review, submission and assessment of assignments
What works and what does not work (yet)
10-12-2013, Tiemen Nanninga (ETE), Ingo Leusbrock (ETE) and Annemarie Zijlmans (EDUsupport)
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Use of Turnitin for peer-review, submission and assessment of assignments
What works and what does not work (yet)
10-12-2013, Tiemen Nanninga (ETE), Ingo Leusbrock (ETE) and Annemarie Zijlmans (EDUsupport)
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Content
Who are we?
What is Turnitin?
Our experiences
●Submission of assignments (Paper assignment)
●Peer review (PeerMark and PeerMark Questions)
●Assessment (Originality check and Rubric)
●Resubmission (Revision assignment)
Pro’s and Con’s
Recommendations
Next steps
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Who are we?
Tiemen Nanninga
●Environmental Technology (WUR), LeAF
●Education, New Sanitation,
Linking sanitation and agriculture
Ingo Leusbrock
●Environmental Technology (WUR)
●Urban System Engineering, Sustainable Technology Integration
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Our experiences - Background
Master of Urban Environmental Management
ETE-22806 (‘Principles’)
●>70 students
●Individual assignment with originality check, peer review, feedback, assessment and re-submission
ETE-34306 (‘Closing cycles’)
●>25 students
●Group assignment with originality check, feedback and assessment
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Our challenges
Lots of assignments
Flexible and transparent grading
Emailing large attachments
Plagiarism check
Quick assessment including useful feedback
Calculation of grades based on multiple criteria
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What is Turnitin?
Tool within Blackboard
●Submission of assignments
●Originality check, peer review, grading, feedback and communication
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What can you do with Turnitin?
Submission of assignments (Paper assignment)
Peer review (PeerMark)
●PeerMark Questions
●Originality Check
Assessment and Grading
●Originality Check
●Rubric
●Feedback and Comments
Resubmission (Revision assignment)
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Submission of assignments
Paper Assignment
PeerMark Assignment
Revision Assignment
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Paper Assignment
It all starts here
Submission of assignment for peer review and/ or assessment
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Peer review (PeerMark)
Use for peer review in groups of 6 students
●Submission, peer review, discuss results in groups
Plagiarism check
PeerMark questions
No emailing
Strict deadlines
Easy monitoring ‘behind the scenes’
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PeerMark Questions
(small group) Peer review
Guidance through peer review by customized questions
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Assessment
Online assessment of papers
●Originality check
●Rubric
●Comments
●QuickMarks
Assessment by multiple examiners
●Simultaneous use is possible
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Originality check
Always check!
●A high number is not per se plagiarism, and vice versa
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Rubric
Customizable rubric
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QuickMark and Comments
QuickMark comments
In-text comments
General comments
Different highlighting colours
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Resubmission of assignments (Revision)
Resubmission of assignments for assessment
●No overwriting over earlier submitted files
Submission only allowed once!
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Libraries
Libraries allow export of assessment tools from user to user
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So, why Turnitin?
Fully online
Plagiarism check via originality check
Grade Manager & Quick Mark Manager
Rubrics
Peer review
Libraries for grade manager, rubrics and peer review
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Students: Pro’s
Nice and easy accessible tool
Online
Easy to use interface (PeerMark Questions)
PeerMark worked well
Visual plagiarism check
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Students: Con’s
No in-text changes possible (spelling and grammar)
●“Track changes”
No downloading
Setting a minimum number of words at ‘explanatory questions’ resulted in confusion
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Lecturers: Pro’s
Reduced organizational workload
●Submission
●Assessment and Feedback
Peer review-positive experience for all
Simple yet effective plagiarism check
Joint review of lecturers possible in one document
Transparent and constructive assessment
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Lecturers: Con’s
Needs time to learn
Not always straight-forward and intuitive
●Help limited within Turnitin
●“Trial and error”
Import / export files from / in standard formats is not possible
Not possible to see who has given a QuickMark (joint review)
Group making process for peer review
New for students
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Students: Recommendations
Make track changes within the text instead of only comments. Especially for correcting spelling/ grammar
Drop the minimum amount of words for feedback
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Lecturers: Recommendations
Export / import feature(s) and options
Allow editing of rubric after deleting assignments
Offline feature to review with later syncing
Link groups in BB to Turnitin
Track changes for Revision Assignment
Better/ clearer help manuals
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Next steps for us
Use of BB and Turnitin in all courses
Improve rubrics / transparency
Use other functions of BB / Turnitin
Dissemination of our knowledge
●Development of manual for use of Turnitin based on our experiences
●Paper, video, website
●Interested? Let us know (letter of interest) so we can secure funding and time!
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Questions?
Interested in Turnitin? Feel free to contact us on:
www.wageningenur.nl/etewww.wageningenur.nl/esd
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