Plagiarism Detection Is Technology the Answer USG Surveys

Plagiarism Detection: Is Technology the Answer? USG Surveys 2003 -2007 Liz Johnson Project Manager Advanced Learning Technologies Copyright Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (BOR) 2007. This work is the intellectual property of the BOR. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the copyright holder. Creating A More Educated Georgia

Overall Satisfaction Very satisfied 38 46. 91% Somewhat satisfied 33 40. 74% No opinion 6 7. 41% Very dissatisfied 3 3. 70% Somewhat dissatisfied 1 1. 23% Answered=81 Creating A More Educated Georgia

Satisfaction with Originality Reports Very satisfied Somewhat dissatisfied No opinion Very dissatisfied Did not use Answered=81 Creating A More Educated Georgia 46 56. 79% 33 40. 74% 2 2. 47% 0 0%

Satisfaction with Statistical Reports Very satisfied Somewhat satisfied Did not use No opinion Somewhat dissatisfied Very dissatisfied Answered=81 Creating A More Educated Georgia 44 54. 32% 19 23. 46% 9 11. 11% 6 7. 41% 2 2. 47% 1 1. 23%

Effectiveness Term Institutions Instructors Students Submissions >75% non original Sp 03 pilot 10 207 2, 697 827 4% 03 -04 15 300 7, 297 14, 979 4% 04 -05 18 602 20, 550 39, 107 5% 05 -06 15 497 22, 669 45, 212 3% 06 -07 19 634 28, 338 59, 119 2% Creating A More Educated Georgia

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Legal Implications • FERPA The U. S. Board of Education issued a letter in August 2006 stating that identifying student information may not be transmitted to a third party. USG attorney recommends students’ be given a choice of taking a course with or without plagiarism detection, submit voluntarily or the instructor submit for the student using an anonymous code. Turnitin is developing an anonymous coding system which it plans to submit to the Board of Education for approval. Creating A More Educated Georgia

• Student Intellectual Property Rights Turnitin has been sued by students several times. So far, all suits have been settled out of court with no judicial decision. In March, a new suit was filed against Turnitin by four high school students in Virginia and Arizona. A USG attorney feels this is not an issue because Turnitin does not affect the market value of a work submitted to it. My. Drop. Box segregates papers by institution. Creating A More Educated Georgia

Cost 03 -04 04 -05 05 -06 06 -07 07 -08 $500. 00 $650. 00 $800. 00 $850. 00 $0. 50 $0. 60 $0. 75 $0. 80 $0. 87 $9, 287. 00 $11, 892. 00 $15, 887. 00 $17, 169. 00 $18, 651. 00 Base price per student cost Example institution Creating A More Educated Georgia

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