Moreover, the results - while not a comprehensive overview of Turnitin's strengths and weaknesses - are likely to renew the debate among writing instructors about the value of plagiarism detection software in the classroom. A follow-up test, conducted this March, produced similar results. Her results initially dissuaded the university from paying a five-figure sum to license the software, she said. Schorn first ran a test to determine Turnitin’s efficacy back in 2007, when the university was considering paying for an institutionwide license. Schorn, a writing coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it.
Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism.
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