Experiencing that Eureka moment! Using Turnitin as a formative learning

tool to enhance students’ academic

literacies

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/mariakonnikova/2014/05/creativity-insight-psychology-studies.html

• Tackling ‘troublesome knowledge’

• Adopting a ‘low stakes’ approach

• Embedding a new culture

• Experiential opportunities for students

• Exploring new models of assessment

• Conclusions and recommendations

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity

‘Tutors in higher education today are encouraged to ensure that appropriate

feedback is provided to students on assessed work in a way that promotes

learning and facilitates improvement.’ (QAA, General Principle 2)

Tackling ‘troublesome knowledge’ (Meyer and Land, 2003)

Holistic approaches to academic integrity

Shift from seeing Turnitin as a tool to ‘catch and punish’ students

Embedding a new culture

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity

Shift in focus from not just how to avoid plagiarism , but why you should avoid plagiarism

Adopting a low stakes approach (Macdonald and Carroll, 2006)

Key aspects of learning and teaching in the visual arts

“we used Turnitin with a sample of our written work. It was really good because I could see the areas I had plagiarised in a different colour…I thought this was really good especially as it relates to our studio practice” (3rd year student, UCA)

Experiential opportunities for students

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/academicintegrity

Helping to reduce the following:

• Plagiarism in your own work

• Highlighting over reliance on one source

• Citation errors

• Textual borrowing

Experiencing the Eureka moment

http://registrarism.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/turnitin-logo.gif?w=300&h=143

• Integrated learning development

• Staff and student training

• Staged academic writing tasks

• International students perspectives

Conclusions and recommendations

Annamarie McKie

amckie@ucreative.ac.uk

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/annamarie-mckie-uca

Any questions?