June 19, 2019 on Class Tech Tips
…Learn to Code from SAM Labs provides teachers with 50 comprehensive STEAM lesson plans that can help you jump in right away. Using a combination of physical blocks and a Learn-Do-Reflect sequence, students will have a hands-on opportunity to learn the essentials of coding…Read full article here.
…In a partnership with CORE, which aggregates and layers access tools on top of its growing collection of research papers, Turnitin’s proprietary web crawler will search through CORE’s database — some 135 million metadata records from more than 3,700 data providers — to check for text similarity…Read full article here.
By Matthew Lynch
05/20/2019 on Edvocate
The research from HDI, commissioned by TeamDynamix, found that despite resource constraints, education IT staff, along with information technology staffers in government and healthcare continue to lead the way in knowledge management, process controls, and other steps towards what is called “maturity” with respect to IT service management…Read full article here.
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…But perhaps most importantly, adaptive testing can begin to crack psychometrics – the practice of measuring the way people think. With the right assessment construction, adaptive techniques can measure mindsets and skills as well as acquired knowledge…Read full article here.
By Matthew Lynch
05/20/2019
…Those experts–the ones with that vision for the future for education assessment–will meet on June 10-13 in Minneapolis as part of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing (IACAT) 2019 Conference. When they do, it may be the most important meeting about assessment in a generation…Read full article here.
By: Matt Zalaznick
05/07/2019 University Business
…The company’s more recently released Authorship Investigate platform was specially designed to identify contract cheating….Read full article here.
By Dov Friedman
05/2019 on CIO Review
…”To get teachers to use video conferencing services, we have to make it easy and reliable”…Read full article here.
By: Hayley Peterson
05/10/2019 on Business Insider
…It’s harder for teachers to detect contract cheating than other forms of cheating, such as plagiarism. So Turnitin has updated its software to help identify signs that students purchased their assignments…Read full article here.
By Tovia Smith
04/08/2019 on NPR
…Concern is growing at the nation’s colleges and universities about a burgeoning online market, where students can buy ghost-written essays. Schools are trying new tools to catch it… Read full article here.
04/10/2019 on Help Net Security
…This new service will work with the core asset management functionality within the TDX platform to offer a complete, up-to-date view of assets across the enterprise… Read full article here.
…The purchase of Turnitin, an online grading and anti-plagiarism company, will give Advance Publications an educational technology (edtech) presence…Read full article here.
….Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based developer of software that uses artificial intelligence to scan students’ writing and code assignments to check for plagiarism, will be acquired by Advance Publications, a media conglomerate that also owns Condé Nast. The deal, which The Wall Street Journal estimated is worth nearly $1.75 billion, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019…Read full article here.
By Melissa Korn
03/06/2019 on Wall Street Journal
Advance Publications Inc. agreed to acquire Turnitin, the software company that allows teachers to check whether papers submitted by students have been plagiarized, for nearly $1.75 billion, according to people familiar with the matter…Read full article here.
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02/23/2019 on San Francisco Chronicle
…To detect contract cheaters, Turnitin’s new tool assigns each paper a basic “readability” score. If the same student is doing the work, the score should be similar…Read full article here.
