We've received several emails and comments from folks asking how we made The Source Educational Evaluation Rubric (SEER) to automatically calculate the rubric score and percentage. So I made this quick behind the scenes video to show you all the elements of it. It requires Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro which allows for creating, editing and saving of form fields.
Watch SEER: Making the Interactive Rubric PDF on Vimeo.
Educators are well aware of the shortcomings of relying on crowd-sourced content for authoritative information, yet the fact that Wikipedia continues to reign supreme as a top match in Turnitin suggests that students don't see things the same way. In short, what constitutes "research" for students today has come to mean "Googling."
This on-demand webcast explores the connection between student source choices and the development of research and critical thinking skills. We'll also discuss the development of the Turnitin website evaluation rubric to help students enhance their competencies in evaluating online sources.
This white paper highlights the recent findings regarding student research practices, presents SEER, and offers guidance on using the rubric to improve student research skills.
Over 80 million student papers were submitted to Turnitin worldwide in 2012. But how much is 80 million papers anyway? The average length of each paper submission is three pages, which is 240 million sheets of paper. So to help put things in perspective, here's how things stack up:
Over 80 million student papers were submitted to Turnitin in 2012... Enough to save 3,000 trees if we went paperless.
Every December, millions of children around the world write letters to Santa, explaining how they've been good boys and girls and letting him know what they want to see under their trees come December 25th.
Over the years, the number of kids sending him letters skyrocket. His mailbox was flooded and he found himself buried in letters, unable to respond to all of them.
One day, a little elf told Santa about Turnitin—how he could use it to accept submissions from the children, check the letters for originality, give immediate feedback, and even use rubrics to help determine if they've been naughty or nice. So he gave it a shot.
Watch How Santa Grades Millions of Letters with Turnitin on Vimeo or on YouTube
Share this video with your colleagues, especially the ones that look like they've been in an avalanche of essays.
How can you design assignments that are plagiarism-proof? Here are 7 tips on developing strategies to encourage original student work:
Instructors and students are most familiar with Turnitin as a plagiarism prevention tool. Many miss the opportunity to use Turnitin as a teaching tool to really engage students and provide them with meaningful feedback.
OriginalityCheck is an opportunity for instructors to connect with students to show them proper citation, to identify motivations for improper citation, and to address academic integrity. In other words, it gives instructors a teaching moment.
The 5th International Plagiarism Conference started last Tuesday (July 17, 2012) with a welcome address from Turnitin's Vice President of International, Will Murray, and an opening address from Craig Mahoney, chief executive of the Higher Education Academy. The kickoff continued with a morning keynote from Dr. Tracey Bretag of University of South Australia, discussing policy, practice, and the student perspective. An afternoon keynote from Dr. Virginia Barbour from the Committee on Publication Ethics spoke about plagiarism from an editor's perspective. During the day there were also an additional 22 available sessions and workshops.
TeacherCast's Jeff Bradbury talks with Turnitin's Ray Huang and Jason Chu to talk about Turnitin, GradeMark, and Common Core State Standards.
TeacherCast App Spotlight: @Turnitin
Listen to more great education podcasts and more from TeacherCast at http://teachercast.net
In education, terms like personalization, individualization, and differentiation get thrown around frequently as alternative approaches to the one size fits all approach to teaching and learning.
To help demystify these alternatives, Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey developed this chart on the differences on approaches to teaching and learning. The chart clearly explains that personalization is about the learner and the distinct difference in the learning environment.
The folks over at EasyBib, a citation help site, recently created a new infographic on information literacy. This infographic builds on research from Turnitin's Infographic and White Paper on the top sites students are turning to on the web, and adds EasyBib's citation data and student survey to offer further insight into student research habits as well as the critical role that librarians play in developing 21st century informational literacy skills.
Watch this panel discussion on collaboration between social media and education. This forum was presented by the Brookings Institute's Center for Technology Innovation. This panel of experts address the challenges of using new technology and policies behind integrating technology into the education system.
