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Pre-Requisites of Turnitin Use

Academic policing via top-down implementation of Turnitin in Pakistan: Students ’ perspective and way forward. Pre-Requisites of Turnitin Use . Instructors and Students Digital Literacy and Awareness Referencing Computing Skills Infrastructure Training. Turnitin in Pakistan.

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Pre-Requisites of Turnitin Use

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  1. Academic policing via top-down implementation of Turnitinin Pakistan: Students’ perspective and way forward

  2. Pre-Requisites of Turnitin Use • Instructors and Students • Digital Literacy and Awareness • Referencing • Computing Skills • Infrastructure • Training

  3. Turnitin in Pakistan • Started in 2009 • Higher Education Commission acquired a country level account • Each University got 1000 accounts • Followed by a Plagiarism Policy- to chalk out rules and regulations • Most used is Originality Check™

  4. Usage Statistics (HEC’s Annual Report)

  5. HEC’s Turnitin Access Workflow

  6. HEC’s Access Rights Workflow

  7. University Access Workflow

  8. Focal Person Survey (Online Survey)

  9. Some Discoveries • Turnitin Implementation didn’t follow necessary amendments in Education policy. • Implementing from Top ( Post Graduate level) without necessary capacity building had its huge drawbacks

  10. Student’s Version of this reality • Distanced from Turnitin Use, hence have negative beliefs • Reflecting on not-so-sure instructors

  11. The Plan • Using Originality Report as a teaching aid • For Plagiarism awareness • Academic integrity/ Ethics • Writing Conventions • Referencing Styles

  12. Methodology • Participants • 35 Pakistani Postgraduate Students, • M.A. English (Final Semester)

  13. The Research Plan • A Questionnaire • 5 Screencasts ( Walk-through Tutorials) • Interactive Sessions • Hands-on Practice of Turnitin Student Accounts

  14. Student Demographics

  15. Interactive Sessions • Some of Students’ works were processed in Turnitin in Public on Multimedia and • There was a mixed air of excitement and anxiety. • Students were asked to comprehend the possible meaning of the highlighted text

  16. Highlights in an Originality Report

  17. Video Tutorials

  18. Resources Used

  19. Further Work

  20. Plagiarism Exercises

  21. Sessions Detail • Total Session: 3 • Each Session followed a Home work of a write-up- that needed to cite 2 websites, a book, a newspaper, and a journal article, on a self-chosen topic, to be produced before the next session • There was a Gap of a week in each session

  22. Conclusion • Amended Education Policy, that gives proper focus to Plagiarism Consciousness/Sensitivity • Implementation at Lower Levels • Instructor Training and uplifting technologically • Open Talks/Seminars on Plagiarism related issues and about Turnitin mechanism for Students and Instructors

  23. Conclusion • Students should be accessed where they spend most of their time, internet • Provision of training Screencasts, video tutorials in Urdu, as well as regional languages. • Presence on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Famous Blogs • Guide Students about Authorship and Originality

  24. Conclusion • In Evaluation of Assignments, citation and referencing should be made as a credit component. • Students should be encouraged to engage directly with Turnitin accounts, so to remove the misconception of imagining Turnitin with Awe and Fear.

  25. Significance of this study • Applicability in similar scenarios. • Yes, It is possible.

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