Using Turnitin As a Tool For Attribution In Cases Of Contract Cheating
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The document discusses the use of Turnitin as a tool for detecting contract cheating in academic work, where students employ third parties to produce assignments. It highlights that while Turnitin typically identifies copied work, contract cheating presents challenges since the produced content is often original. Some successful cases of identifying contract cheating through Turnitin are noted, advocating for academics to load assignment specifications into the system to improve detection rates.
Using Turnitin As a Tool For Attribution In Cases Of Contract Cheating
- 1. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 1 Using Turnitin As a Tool For Attribution In Cases Of Contract Cheating Thomas Lancaster & Robert Clarke Birmingham City University HEA STEM Conference 2014
- 2. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 2 Contract Cheating A student uses a third party to produce academic work for them
- 3. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 3 Business Card Distributed During Induction Week At Birmingham City University
- 4. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 4 Business Card Distributed During Induction Week At Birmingham City University
- 5. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 5 Turnitin Turnitin is a text matching service, used to identify students copying from external services and colluding with other students
- 6. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 6 Contract Cheating Work produced using contract cheating is original, so Turnitin will not identify sources for this work
- 7. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 7 Attribution The challenging process where a contract cheating detective tries to identify the university that student contract cheating requests found online are from Most of our work is based around the Freelancer.com agency site
- 8. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 8 Some Success Running student contract cheating requests through Turnitin has started to show interesting results for a small number cases
- 9. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 9 Turnitin Example 1 Large match to assignment brief
- 10. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 10 Turnitin Example 2 Multiple small hits from the same source
- 11. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 11 Turnitin Example 3 No matches when first posted But received request to view from another university when it matched one of their assignments 2 months later
- 12. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 12 Turnitin Example 4 Turnitin Report from Posting in Jan 2014 Shows that same stock assignment has been used before in previous years Brainmass.com provides stock answers
- 13. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 13 Turnitin Example 5a Freelancer request to re-write assignment Source located by Turnitin
- 14. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 14 Turnitin Example 5b We try to follow up other postings. This was made by the same person as before and matches the same source
- 15. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 15 Turnitin Example 6 Multiple sources for EdExcel courses Example of “false positive” matches
- 16. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 16 Turnitin Example 7 Turnitin also matches public web sites Particularly useful if “old data” not found by Google
- 17. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 17 Turnitin Example 8 Multiple hits, but no response to Turnitin requests Possible problems: Staff Turnover University no longer registered with Turnitin
- 18. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 18 Current Use Turnitin is now allowing contract cheating detectives to attribute work that has not been identified using other methods 29% success rate based on sample in paper Recommendation – academics should load all assignment specifications into Turnitin
- 19. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 19 Resources Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_cheating Contract Cheating Special Interest Group (supported by the Higher Education Academy): https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi- bin/webadmin?A0=CONTRACTCHEATING Materials from recent HEA STEM Contract Cheating Workshop: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/13_March_Computi ng_Contract_Birmingham
- 20. @MyBCU www.facebook.com/birminghamcityuniversity #contractcheating 20 For More Information Thomas Lancaster Email: thomas.lancaster@bcu.ac.uk Website: http://thomaslancaster.co.uk Twitter: @DrLancaster Robert Clarke Email: robert.clarke@bcu.ac.uk Slides Available At http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasLancaster