{"id":390,"date":"2013-07-01T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:42:43","slug":"evaluating-sources-used-by-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2013\/07\/01\/evaluating-sources-used-by-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating sources used by students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/07\/rating_sources1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/07\/rating_sources1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/07\/rating_sources1.jpg 887w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/07\/rating_sources1-300x39.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\nStudents consult a variety of sources in their academic writing, such as academic sites, social sites and electronic encyclopaedias (e.g. wikipedia). In today&#8217;s electronic age, some unscrupulous students even use\u00a0&#8216;cheat&#8217; sites that sell custom essays. The Turnitin providers created a rubric to evaluate the credibility of online sites, and then conducted a study using the rubric to evaluate 197 sources. The resulting interactive website is very informative and useful (see more details below.)<\/p>\n<p>From the blog at turnitin.com &#8211; &#8220;Explore the ratings for top student sources&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turnitin created a new interactive website, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnitin.com\/assets\/en_us\/media\/seer\/he\/all.php\">Ratings for Top Student Sources<\/a>,&#8221; which ranks the most popular online sources found in student papers.<\/p>\n<p>Turnitin partnered with a team of educators who scored the online sources most frequently used by secondary and higher education students in six categories: academic, social media, paper mills, encyclopedias, news\/portals, and shopping sites. The educators used the <a href=\"http:\/\/turnitin.com\/en_us\/about-us\/news-releases\/website-evaluation-rubric-to-analyze-and-grade-sources\" target=\"_blank\">Source Educational Evaluation Rubric (SEER)<\/a> to rate 197 sources on the level of their authority, educational value, intent, originality, and quality. Visitors to the interactive site can set their viewing preferences using combinations of these attributes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Students consult a variety of sources in their academic writing, such as academic sites, social sites and electronic encyclopaedias (e.g. wikipedia). In today&#8217;s electronic age, some unscrupulous students even use\u00a0&#8216;cheat&#8217; sites that sell custom essays. The Turnitin providers created &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2013\/07\/01\/evaluating-sources-used-by-students\/\">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-390","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\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}