After the temporary closure of classrooms due to the pandemic of the Covid-19, it is not only intended that students adapt to online classes, but also prevent them from cheating on their homework and school work.
In a study conducted by Turnitin, A sign technological dedicated to offering solutions and tools to prevent plagiarism, in Latin America (including Mexico), 196 thousand 691 jobs were analyzed and it was found that more than 12 percent were not original authorship.
Other data disclosed by this company, which was originally created by four doctoral students from the University of California at Berkeley, show that plagiarism represents, without doubt, one of the main obstacles and problems faced by communities educational, due to the over-information faced by evaluators, teachers and educational authorities.
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In an interview, Catalina Londoño, manager of Professional and Educational Services at Turnitin, pointed out that, supported by the intelligence artificial, seek to ensure integrity in education and research globally.
“Artificial intelligence can be a key element in the transformation from education. It can be used for the benefit of educators and students by detecting trends, make predictions about the process of learning and develop tasks that allow teachers to save time ”, Londoño mentioned.
Automatic detection software
Fortunately, these kinds of developments focused on detection automatic of content plagiarized are increasingly used. Only in the case of the aforementioned technology firm, its products are already used by more than 30 million students and teachers from 15 thousand institutions in 140 countries.
And it is that, these softwares allow, for example, that “students can self-manage and review the quality of their sources, their practices of citation and referencing and the percentage of similarity of their works, in order to support them in their learning process so that they improve their writing habits and can cite correctly, ”said Londoño.
In addition, the specialist highlighted that the timely detection of patterns in student documents (which reveal situations of doubtful authorship), helps to protect the same students from possible integrity problems and even from legality.
Other tools for teachers
Also to reinforce academic achievement and streamline processes there are other platforms as Gradescope, which is another very useful tool since it allows teachers to process the assessment remotely and guarantee the quality of their evaluations in line, reduces time by up to 80% and offers advanced learning statistics.
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“He professor can analyze in detail the performance academic of your students and personalize the feedback you give them on all types of work. Gradescope is effective in all types of tasks – online or on paper – including programming tasks, and easily adapts to the type of STEM questions and assessments.
“We have case studies where institutions of education superior both face-to-face and remotely use these solutions with great effectiveness, making them part of the student’s training process and the institutional academic flow ”, assured Catalina Londoño.
However, he emphasized: “the intelligence artificial it will not appear on student doors as a magic button that says “create a job here.” It will slowly work its way through the writing process, offering more and more advanced tools. “
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