Facilitators

Angela Hammond, Learning & Teaching Institute

Karen Robins, Business School

Outcomes for the session

The role of drafts in formative assessment

How Turnitin works

How to set up Turnitin for formative feedback

Outline of the session

Assessment matters Using drafts for formative assessment A demonstration of Turnitin Setting up the facility to submit drafts Q&A

But is there anything else you want to cover?

Learner-oriented assessment

formative assessment as a supportive edifice/structure for the learner (Sadler, 1998)

a shift in responsibility - in the direction of the learner

assessment within the framework of constructive alignment (Biggs, 2007)

“Assessment practices must send the right signals to students about what they should be learning and how they should be learning it”.

Learning good practice

Summative assessment

Good academic practice

Ownership

Learner autonomy

Formative assessment

Developmental

Drafts

Feedback

Chickering and Gamson : Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education

3.Encourages active learning6.Communicates high expectations

Building in draft assessment a proactive rather than reactive approach use as a carrot not a stick – build in marks for

the draft (e.g. 10%) the students need to engage with the

feedback “Formative assessment checks their growth

and sees that it is on track” (Biggs,2007)

Pride in authorship

A project to improve academic standards Information Hertfordshire and Business School 2008/9 Sample cohort of 34 international students Workshops, i-Spy tutorials, Turnitin Developmental tool for formative feedback

Handling information

Involving the learner

the student submits the work to Turnitin the draft does not have to be stored on the

database an originality report is generated the student can submit as often as they wish the system acts as an early warning

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TurnitinUK Plagiarism Detection

Student work is compared against

1. Current and previous Internet sites

2. Published work form from periodicals, journals and databases.

3. Student assessment submitted to Turnitin from1996

4. Essays from cheat websites

Lecturers can use Turnitin to give formative feedback by giving students access to their turnitin report

Students can submit their work direct to Turnitin

Student papers do not have to be written to the Turnitin database

◦ Overwrite option

◦ Draft option

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Useful information

Go to https://submit.ac.uk/

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Logging on toTurnitin

Forgotten password

-enter your email address & click on ‘forgotten password’

Enter your email address and password

Student View to submit a document

Click on the icon under submit

Upload your document

Submitting your work

Submitting your work

Go to portfolio

Originality report

This may take 10-15 minutes to complete

Click on icon below contents

The originality report should be returned to your inbox within a few minutes.- if the report icon is greyed out, it is still being processed.

The reports are colour coded, red indicates text matching in excess of 75%

All matching text is colour coded and numbered

The report does not distinguish between properly referenced and unacknowledged work

It is possible to exclude quoted material and bibliographies

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Interpreting the Originality Report

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Turnitin report 1

If this is referenced, the work is highly derivative and the will be marked down for lack of originality.

If no references exists, the student is guilty of plagiarism

You should aim for matches of 1% or less and an overall total of less than 10%

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Turnitin report 2

This is potential collusion with another student

This is not acceptable, too much have been taken from other sources whether they have been referenced or not.

This is potential plagiarism and needs investigating by an academic conduct officer

Removing a match

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Click on the cross in the grey square beside the match

Creating a classClick the add class link on your instructor homepage.

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Enter class name (Module name) Enter class enrolment password

(Module code) Choose class end date Click submit

Creating a new assignment

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For formative feedback use ‘more options’

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For student submissions not to be saved database , select no repository

For formative feedback, select Immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)

Revision and Overwrite

Revision – from the new assignment Revision allows the student to submit one or more drafts

of their work and these will not over written. The tutor can see how the students’ work has changed over time

Overwrite – via ‘more options’ ‘immediately (can overwrite until due date)’

allows students to overwrite their draft. The tutor will not be able to see previous versions.

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Common pitfalls

Turnitin document types?Turnitin checks MS Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, and plain text documents. 

Turnitin.com does not check files in graphic formats such as TIFF, EPS, PSD, JPEG, PICT, etc.

Students do not know their UH email address Turnitin password is case sensitive Given choice only a small proportion of students will

submit toTurnitin Turnitin picks up about 50% matches to other sources

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StudyNet - New Features

To bulk download assignments for marking offline (Sem B)

To upload assignments from Studynet direct to Turnitin

To give students access to Turnitin

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Instructions for Students- to create user profiles

1. Go to www.submit.ac.uk

2. Click “sign up” on top menu bar

3. Click enrol as a student

4. Under ‘create a user profile’ select ‘student’ as user type.

5. Enter Class ID: (module code)

6. Enter enrolment password: (module name)

7. Follow instructions on the screen to create your own personal login (herts email address) and password

(Remember your password for later assignments) 

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Student instructions- Logging in and submitting work

Once you have created a user profile return to www.submit.ac.uk

1.Click user login

2.Enter your email address and password details and login

3.Click on (module name) – then click on ‘submit’

4.Your name should already appear – enter your paper title (any logical name will do)

5.Click ‘browse’ and find your assignment paper file on your computer or disk and upload this file

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References

Biggs, J, B. Teaching for quality learning at university. 3rd edn. Buckingham: SRHE and Open University Press

Chickering, A. W. & Gamson, Z. F. (1987). Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. American Association for Higher Education Bulletin, 39(7), 3–7.

Sadler, 1998 - Formative assessment: revisiting the territory

StudyNet: Good practice in assessment

References JISC Internet Plagiarism Service

www.jiscpas.ac.uk

Plagiarism Advisory Service – Funded by JISCTurnitin UK Instructor FAQshttp://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/faqsearch.php?sol=turnitin_instructor

TurnitinUK – Help User Manuals and FAQs (Instructor and student user guides and videos)http://www.northumbrialearning.co.uk/turnitinhelpguides.php

Mary Davis. (2007). Mary D. Available: http://bejlt.brookes.ac.uk/article/the_role_of_turnitin_within_the_formative_process_of_academic_writing/

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