MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the leader in improving how students write and learn, today 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 the software 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: the change in unoriginal content time over time in a given country; the growth of Turnitin as a feedback tool on student writing, and the 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, Chinese higher education institutions enjoyed a 29 percent decline in unoriginal writing and saw a 125 percent increase in the number of papers graded online between 2011 and 2014.
Walid Daouk, Ph.D. Chair Professor of International Education College at NCC Guangzhou Institute of Technology, said of Turnitin: "We view it as a tool to help students improve their writing. As a learning tool it is invaluable for giving feedback to our students quickly and efficiently."
The following are some of the general findings from the study:
"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."
Reports available for: Austria, Belgium, Canada, mainland China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and Thailand.
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 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, California, with offices in U.K, Netherlands and Australia.
