MELBOURNE, Australia, November 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the leader in improving how students write and learn, has released an interactive infographic reporting results of a global study on unoriginal content and the importance of feedback in the writing process. The study examined how institutions use Turnitin to reduce unoriginal writing and engage students in the writing process through the use of online feedback and grading tools. Click to tweet.
While there have been numerous studies of Turnitin's efficacy in larger English-speaking markets, this study demonstrates that the adoption of Turnitin as a digital feedback tool is occurring globally.
More than 14 million submissions across 15 countries were examined along three dimensions: change in unoriginal content time over time in a given country; growth of Turnitin as a feedback tool on student writing, and percentage of content from highly unoriginal content that matched to other student papers in the system.
View the interactive chart to see the results and download each country's full report.
Specifically, South Korean higher education institutions enjoyed a 67 percent decline in unoriginal writing and saw a 457 percent increase in the number of papers graded online between 2010 and 2014. Secondary education saw a healthy decline of 59 percent in unoriginal content, with an increase of 192 percent in the number of papers graded online.
"As education moves to greater use of technology, Turnitin is becoming a core component of the writing instruction process around the world," said Jason Chu, education director at Turnitin.
"The study demonstrates that Turnitin is not only used as a tool to promote original writing, but also as an instructional tool to provide feedback to students and engage them in the writing process."
Some general findings from the study:
About Turnitin
Turnitin is revolutionizing the experience of writing to learn. The Company's cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading and peer reviewing saves instructors time and provides valuable feedback to students. Turnitin is one of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world and is used by more than 15,000 institutions in 140 countries to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of student papers online. Turnitin also offers iThenticate, a plagiarism detection service for commercial markets, and Writecheck, a suite of formative tools for writers. Turnitin is backed by Insight Venture Partners, GIC, Norwest Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital and Georgian Partners, and is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K., Utrecht, Netherlands and Melbourne, Australia.
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