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1 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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A presentation from the "Docentendag" (Lecturer day) by Tiemen Nanninga and me on Turnitin. We have used Turnitin our lectures in several courses of our Urban Environmental Management Master track to check student submissions for plagiarism, for peer-review and to give clear and transparent feedback online via rubrics and built-in comment function. Turnitin was a great help for us in assessment in group and individual assignments, so we share here our experiences and our recommendations for further improvement.

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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!