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Look beyond the similarity score – there may be a perfectly good reason for the relatively high % score.
TURNITIN SIMILARITY SCORE FULL
Let’s look at a couple of scenarios where the percentage originality score (high or low) might not necessarily tell the full story of who has written the assignment. It’s certainly a good starting point, but it shouldn’t solely determine your verdict of the assignment and it’s really best not to set a benchmark score to guide your overall judgement – the process ultimately requires a qualitative judgement to be made. The overall % score gives us a quick, rough indicator of how original a student submission might be. You’ll be able to easily spot where exactly the larger pockets of similarity are being used across the assignment. This allows you to continually keep a check on originality as you go through the process of marking the work – and helps you contextualise the areas of similarity. Follow this help guide from the Learn Tech team ( to ensure your similarity reports check exactly what you want them to.īefore you begin marking, a useful tip is to overlay the similarity view with the marking view of the Turnitin site (see right). When you first set up a Turnitin submission point in NILE, you are offered a daunting list of options to select from. Start by making sure the similarity report generated is as accurate and useful as possible. Get the set up right to get the most accurate report
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TURNITIN SIMILARITY SCORE HOW TO
This blog offers some tips about how to ‘read’ Turnitin reports – and to consider a range of factors beyond just the overall similarity % score to help you make a judgement about whether you should refer an assignment to the academic integrity and misconduct process. While this automated process has really helped staff judge the credibility of student assignments, your own judgement is still needed to interpret the similarity report. This provides the marker with a % score of how much of the student work matches material contained in Turnitin’s vast database – some 62 billion webpages, 734 million student papers and 165 million academic sources. If an assignment is set up using a Turnitin submission point, a similarity report is automatically generated for each assignment. Since the University moved to online assignment submission some years ago it has been much easier to judge the originality of student work. Written by Jim Lusted, Learning Designer/Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies