Creating A More Educated Georgia Plagiarism Detection: Is Technology the Answer? USG Surveys 2003-2007 Liz Johnson Project Manager Advanced Learning Technologies Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia 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.
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Creating A More Educated Georgia
Plagiarism Detection: Is Technology the Answer?
USG Surveys 2003-2007
Liz Johnson Project Manager
Advanced Learning TechnologiesBoard of Regents of the University System of Georgia
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 Faculty 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=81/643=13%
Creating A More Educated Georgia
Creating A More Educated Georgia
Satisfaction with Originality Reports
Very satisfied 46 56.79%
Somewhat satisfied 33 40.74%
Somewhat dissatisfied 2 2.47%
No opinion 0 0%
Very dissatisfied 0 0%
Did not use 0 0%
Answered=81
Creating A More Educated Georgia
Creating A More Educated Georgia
Satisfaction with Statistical Reports
Very satisfied 44 54.32%
Somewhat satisfied 19 23.46%
Did not use 9 11.11%
No opinion 6 7.41%
Somewhat dissatisfied 2 2.47%
Very dissatisfied 1 1.23%
Answered=81
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EffectivenessTerm Institutions Instructors Students Submissions >75% non original
Sp03 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%
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Submissions
827
14,979
39,107
45,212
59,117
33599
2,0951,432 1,212
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Submissions
Papers with >75% nonoriginal material
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Legal Implications
• FERPAThe 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.
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• 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 2007, 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. MyDropBox segregates papers by institution.
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Cost
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Base price $500.00 $500.00 $650.00 $800.00 $850.00
per student cost $0.50 $0.60 $0.75 $0.80 $0.87
Example institution $9,287.00 $11,892.00 $15,887.00 $17,169.00 $18,651.00
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Example Institution with Enrollment @ 20,000
$0.00
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DLA Focus GroupDo on campus or online students commit more
plagiarism? • There are more opportunities (in online
classes), but students cheat just as much in an on campus class.
Where do students get their work? • Mostly they plagiarized from other students on
their campus such as through fraternity or sorority files and from open websites. But many students also plagiarize from papers of their friends on other campuses.
