Improve Academic Integrity & Engage Students
Katya Levchenko, Turnitin (The Netherlands)
Abstract
Writing is becoming more and more important and increasingly touches all aspects of learning. To ensure better writing, instructors use educational technology to leave immediate, formative and personalized feedback in less time. Instructors can easily evaluate if students understand how to respect copyright and, above all, how to declare when they are expressing their own ideas and when they are using other people's ideas.
Technology also eliminates the time-consuming process of verifying student authorship by presenting easy-to-use reports that show how much of a document is original. This way educators can promote academic integrity in their classroom. Students learn the importance of original writing and foster critical thinking skills that are important to student success.
Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving student learning. The company’s cloud-based service for personalized feedback, online grading, and originality checking saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students. One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world, Turnitin is used by more than 15,000 institutions in 140 countries to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of student work online.