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Plagiarism Detection in the Classroom: Honesty and Trust Through the Urkund and Turnitin Software

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This text is the result of a research process that has been carried out during the last five years on the realities and problems of plagiarism in contexts of higher education in different countries. We have observed eight groups of university students of different degrees in Engineering in a mandatory course of “Oral and written expression” in two universities in different countries (Ecuador and Spain). This course aims to provide tools to develop skills in oral and written presentations on academic assignments.

Through practical exercises, manuals and presentations, students develop different strategies to generate tools to expose their knowledge as a “way of doing”. The development of student tasks follows specific guidelines discussed with the use of technology to detect plagiarism, Turnitin and Urkund tools. The results of our research indicate how the average percentage of plagiarism in student work is reduced with the introduction of this software.

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  1. Complutense University of Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Simone Belli

  2. Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, Morelia, Mexico

    Cristian López Raventós

  3. CIST – Centro de Investigacion en Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, UPSE, La Libertad, Ecuador

    Teresa Guarda

  4. Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, UPSE, La Libertad, Ecuador

    Teresa Guarda

  5. Algoritmi Centre, Minho University, Guimarães, Portugal

    Teresa Guarda

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  1. DEI/FCT, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Facultad de Geografia, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Carlos Ferrás

  3. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de, Bogota, Colombia

    Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin

  4. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de, Bogota, Colombia

    Víctor Hugo Medina García

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Belli, S., Raventós, C.L., Guarda, T. (2020). Plagiarism Detection in the Classroom: Honesty and Trust Through the Urkund and Turnitin Software. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Montenegro Marin, C., Medina García, V. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1137. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_63

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