An Institutional Self-Study of Text-Matching Software in a Canadian Graduate-Level Engineering Program

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 263-282 - 2020
Sarah Elaine Eaton1, Katherine Crossman1, Laleh Behjat, Robin Michael Yates1, Elise Fear1, Milana Trifkovic1
1Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Tóm tắt

This institutional self-study investigated the use of text-matching software (TMS) to prevent plagiarism by students in a Canadian university that did not have an institutional license for TMS at the time of the study. Assignments from a graduate-level engineering course were analyzed using iThenticate®. During the initial phase of the study, similarity scores from the first student assignments (N = 132) were collected to determine a baseline level of textual similarity. Students were then offered an educational intervention workshop on academic integrity. Another set of similarity scores from consenting participants’ second assignments (n = 106) were then collected, and a statistically significant assignment effect (p < 0.05) was found between the similarity scores of the two assignments. The results of this study indicate that TMS, when used in conjunction with educational interventions about academic integrity, can be useful to students and educators to prevent and identify academic misconduct. This study adds to the growing body of empirical research about academic integrity in Canadian higher education and, in particular, in engineering fields.

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