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 learning 6.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

Karen Robins - June 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 from 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 Karen Robins - June Useful information

Go to Karen Robins - June Logging on toTurnitin Forgotten password -enter your address & click on ‘forgotten password’  Enter your address and password

Student View to submit a document

Click on the icon under submit Upload your document

Submitting your work

Go to portfolio

Originality report This may take 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 19 Interpreting the Originality Report

20 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%

21 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 June Click on the cross in the grey square beside the match

Creating a class Click the add class link on your instructor homepage. June  Enter class name (Module name)  Enter class enrolment password (Module code)  Choose class end date  Click submit

Creating a new assignment June

For formative feedback use ‘more options’ June 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. June

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 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 June

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 June

Instructions for Students - to create user profiles 1.Go to 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 address) and password (Remember your password for later assignments) June

Student instructions - Logging in and submitting work Once you have created a user profile return to Click user login 2.Enter your 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 6.Click submit. June

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, Formative assessment: revisiting the territory Sadler, Formative assessment: revisiting the territory StudyNet: Good practice in assessment

References JISC Internet Plagiarism Service Plagiarism Advisory Service – Funded by JISC Turnitin UK Instructor FAQs TurnitinUK – Help User Manuals and FAQs (Instructor and student user guides and videos) Mary Davis. (2007). Mary D. Available: rocess_of_academic_writing/ rocess_of_academic_writing/ June