Auth+ – How it works
Writing is thinking.
Writing is like having a conversation with yourself, if you outsource the writing you miss out on that conversation. We made Auth+ since we feel no current tool is empathic to the notion above. The question we asked is: if a student has zero recollection of a piece of work, have they learned anything? And, the answer we have delivered is Auth+.
How does Auth+ work?
We all make tiny editorial decisions in our mind while writing.
What makes Auth+ different.
Auth+ does not check a database, it checks what is more important: the mind of the student.
What you already have
Similarity Analysis
The power we give you
Familiarity Analysis
Student feedback in numbers.
Responses from ~250 students, across 4 institutes.
Preparation
Design Goal: The tests should not require preparation, if you actually authored your own paper.
Survey Question: Do you feel the test requires preparation if you wrote your own paper?
Total Number of Question Respondents: 222.
Ease of Use
Design Goal: The testing process should be intuitive for students.
Survey Question: Did you find the testing process easy to follow and complete?
Total Number of Question Respondents: 139
Cognitive Impact
Design Goal: The students should rely on their “episodic” memories acquired during writing to guide them to the right answer.
Survey Question: Were some options easier to pick because reading them reminded you of writing them?
Total Number of Question Respondents: 122
Student Quotes
Excerpts collected from some of our students after their first Auth+ experience.
I liked that it has made me think more about taking in what I have written.
I found the little test fun! It was a nice to go back over my work a couple weeks after I had finished reading it.
Well it was quiet surprising for me because I did not expect it to judge my work if its actually been done by me, I enjoyed doing it because it was different from all other assignments we get, and no preparation needed if you have actually done your assignment by yourself.
I actually loved the quiz, and how the alternate options included material that was cleverly related to my topic, but wasn’t what I actually wrote. Because I was confident of what I had written and spent extensive time organising my content, I found the quiz fun and super easy.
In my opinion it was very good, the questions were relevant.
Trust me, if I had copied that assignment from somewhere else or have it done by someone else, than there was no chance that I could have answered these questions!
I would definitely encourage this idea of cross checking of originality. The good thing about this is it hardly took me a minute or two completing this.
I loved the entire concept of verifying, 100% of the time if the person hasn't written the document themselves they will face great difficuly.
I hated that it was too simple, but then it made my life easier so I liked that.
I liked that it gave me the opportunity to prove that I wrote my own speech. It was a more personal experience unlike Turnitin, that only compares your work to others.
I think this test is beneficial for detecting plagiarism and should be used in every course, since a lot of students have started outsourcing their work now.
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