Student Driven TurnItIn as a Teaching-Learning Tool

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Student Driven TurnItIn as a Teaching-Learning
Tool

• Coffey, Anyinam, Nicholson, Wood, Peisachovich

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Academic Honesty Nursing

• Nursing programs focus not only on the knowledge
  required to provide safe, competent, and ethical
  care, but also on the professional socialization
  of students
• Linking academic honesty to nursing codes of
  conduct and professional standards becomes an
  opportunity to bring professional role enactment
  into the classroom

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Ethical Practice

• CNO (2002) identifies the following values,
  shared by society, as being most important in
  providing nursing care in Ontario
• client well-being
• client choice
• privacy and confidentiality
• respect for life
• maintaining commitments
• truthfulness
• fairness

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Self-Regulation

• Nurses have a commitment to the nursing
  profession. Being a member of the profession
  brings with it the respect and trust of the
  public.
• To continue to deserve this respect, nurses have
  a duty to uphold the standards of the profession,
  conduct themselves in a manner that reflects well
  on the profession, and to participate in and
  promote the growth of the profession.
• Nurses have an obligation to participate in the
  effective evolution of self-regulation.
  Self-regulation is a privilege and each nurse is
  accountable for the responsibilities that
  accompany this privilege.
• (CNO, 2002, p. 10)

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Academic Honesty in Context

• Needs to
• Mirror professional standards
• Be student-driven
• Reflect an empowering approach
• Support growth over time and with experience
• Be transparent

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So we decided to explore how we could use
TurnItIn
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Trialing a Common Approach

• Implemented across Term 1 of the BScN for
  Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) in summer
  2006
• All faculty teaching this cohort of students
  selected the same TurnItIn options
• Consistent with York policy, students were not
  required to use TurnItIn
• Clear links between academic honesty,
  professional conduct, and the values of York
  University were made by all faculty

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Contextually Embedded TurnItIn

• Community Code of Conduct (class program)
• Faculty and students behave in a manner
  consistent with the IEN Code of Conduct and
  Professional Standards
• TurnItIn options reflect these values

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Consensus Options

• Students
• View their own originality reports
• May modify and resubmit as many times as they
  choose prior to the due date
• Are invited to seek consultation with faculty
  about TurnItIn originality reports as needed
• Print off final originality reports and submit
  with their assignment
• May choose not to submit their assignments
  through TurnItIn

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Outcomes for Faculty

• Decreased overall workload for faculty
• Decreased conflict with students
• Increased satisfaction
• Greater confidence in student academic honesty
• Alignment with professional Code of Conduct (CNO)
  for faculty as nurses

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Student Writing

• Early submission is encouraged with opportunities
  for resubmission to support student learning
• TurnItIn helps learners identify when appropriate
  citation/referencing is missed
• Identification of the of direct quotes
  encourages paraphrasing
• Sections of the paper that include direct quotes
  with only 2-3 word changes are evident to the
  student writer
• Faculty have accessible samples of student
  writing to see change over time

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Student Feedback

• Percentage of cohort submitting through TurnItIn?
• 100
• 2. Should we continue to use TurnItIn in the IEN
  program?
• YES 75 NO 25
• If TurnItIn was available to you, but it didnt
  matter one way or the other to your professor,
  would you still use it?
• YES 62 NO 38
• 4. How many times, on average, did you submit an
  assignment?
• Once 33 Twice 33 Three 33

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Student Feedback

• 5. How hard is TurnItIn to use?
• _________________________________________________
  ______________
• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
• extremely hard extremely
  easy
• 6. How fair is TurnItIn?
• _________________________________________________
  ______________
• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
• extremely fair extremely
  unfair
• 7. How helpful is TurnItIn?
• _________________________________________________
  ______________
• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
• extremely helpful not at all helpful

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Student Feedback

• What would you tell another student about
  TurnItIn?
• At least you can sleep at night because you know
  you havent plagiarized
• No matter how tempting, you cant cheat with
  Google because it will show
• It makes things fair for everyone
• Its a little hard to use it the first time, but
  after that its easy
• If you see your is too high, you can go back
  and show more of your own thinking and your
  professor will probably like this more anyway

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What Worked for Us

• Using TurnItIn collectively
• Clear messaging about academic honesty tied to
  professional values
• Transparency with originality reports and
  opportunities to improve performance
• Faculty commitment to supporting students in
  learning about scholarly writing and appropriate
  referencing
• Faculty-student collaboration to ensure academic
  honesty