“Plagiarism is important,” said Kimball, whose district has 24,000 students. “While certainly plagiarism is an issue for us, we approach this from the perspective of trying to provide tools for students that help them improve academic performance,” he said.
Chip Kimball, assistant superintendent of Lake Washington School District, in Washington state, agreed. It can also be a very instructive tool.”ĭr. It's not in and of itself a disciplinary tool. A lot of times, a faculty member finds it useful to illustrate to a student what a student should have done with respect to references. “Sometimes it’s an innocent issue - a matter of students not properly footnoting. “It simplifies the process for faculty members trying to find whether or not a student’s assignment has portions of it duplicated,” said Sandbrook, special assistant to the executive dean. John Sandbrook, an educator at the University of California, Los Angeles, cautioned against seeing Turnitin as a purely disciplinary device. If they want students to upload their work and check, it’s their decision," Barrie said. “The institutions and the faculty members - those are our clients. The service is licensed only to faculty members, but can be accessible to students. Military Academy at West Point, Dartmouth University, Rutgers University, the California state university system, all the colleges and universities in the United Kingdom and other international institutions such as the American University in Cairo. “We represent a lot of the world’s students,” he said.īarrie said Turnitin also is used by 5,000 high schools and universities in 85 countries. How much does it cost? Barrie said the price is just 75 cents per student, a cost kept low by the number of customers. Turnitin's Web site says that, compared to conventional online academic-paper searches that can take 12 minutes each, its service gives instructors the ability to research 125 papers in a blistering 15 seconds.
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