{"id":351,"date":"2013-05-15T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/?p=351"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:25:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:25:59","slug":"turnitin-academy-news-15-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2013\/05\/15\/turnitin-academy-news-15-may-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnitin Academy News 15 May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.turnitin.com\/academy_0513.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoluq%2FKZKXonjHpfsX57uQqWqexhIkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMSMFrMa%2BNFAAgAZVnyRQFE%2FCUboFE8%2FJQGA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Turnitin Academy Newsletter <\/a>provides information on the following: (follow the link for more information and to register for the free webinars)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Closing the gap<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>What students say about instructor feedback<\/strong>. Key findings from the survey include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite high rates of electronic submission, students do not report receiving electronic feedback at the same rate.<\/li>\n<li>Students find feedback on &#8220;thesis\/development&#8221; the most valuable, but report receiving more feedback on grammar\/mechanics and composition\/structure.<\/li>\n<li>Though 66.5 percent of students reported receiving &#8220;general, overall comments&#8221; on their paper, less than half of those students rated that feedback as &#8220;very helpful.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Forty-five percent of students rate voice\/audio comments as helpful, but only 2.7 percent currently receive this type of feedback.<\/li>\n<li>Over 17 percent of students reported that their instructors would take more than 17 days to provide feedback on their papers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Free UK-based webinars:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Do Students Plagiarise? | May 22<\/li>\n<li>Identifying Plagiarism in Student Work | May 29<\/li>\n<li>Reducing Plagiarism through Assessment Design | Jun 5<\/li>\n<li>A Quick Guide to Referencing | Jun 12<\/li>\n<li>Using Electronic Sources | June 19<\/li>\n<li>Case Processing | Jun 26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>User Events and Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access the newsletter link for all the information, including a schedule for online <a href=\"http:\/\/url.turnitin.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=bWFpbGluZ2lkPWlwYXJhZGlnbXNCZXRhY3VzdC0zMTMzLTE2NzE5LTAtNDM5NC1wcm9kLTM2NTAmbWVzc2FnZWlkPTAmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0zNjUwJnNlcmlhbD0xMjc5Mzg3NjQ0JmVtYWlsaWQ9amlsbC5mcmVzZW5AaXQub3guYWMudWsmdXNlcmlkPTE1ODczMDc2JmV4dHJhPSYmJg==&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/pages.turnitin.com\/walkthrough.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoluq%2FKZKXonjHpfsX57uQqWqexhIkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMSMFrMa%2BNFAAgAZVnyRQFE%2FCUboFE8%2FJQGA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Basic Training Walkthroughs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Turnitin Academy Newsletter provides information on the following: (follow the link for more information and to register for the free webinars) Closing the gap &#8211; What students say about instructor feedback. Key findings from the survey include: Despite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2013\/05\/15\/turnitin-academy-news-15-may-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}