Open AccessUsing an Electronic Text-Matching Tool (Turnitin) to Detect Plagiarism in a New Zealand University
Author(s) -
R. Goddard,
R. Rudzki
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of university teaching and learning practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1449-9789
DOI - 10.53761/1.2.3.7
Subject(s) - plagiarism detection , cheating , matching (statistics) , higher education , medical education , psychology , mathematics education , computer science , sociology , pedagogy , political science , medicine , artificial intelligence , social psychology , law , pathology
This paper is concerned with reporting the experience and findings of staff using a commercially-available textmatching tool (Turnitin) to detect plagiarism in a university setting in New Zealand. The use of actual instances of plagiarism revealed through Turnitin in a teaching department is a departure from the more usual selfreporting methodology used in many plagiarism research papers. The paper concludes by asking questions of the implications for institutions, teaching staff and students.