use of turnitin for peer review submission and assessment of assignments
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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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