Software

CITS infuses social insights into engineering innovation and builds technology solutions that respond to problems that have arisen in the process of researching the role technology plays in society. For instance, the CITS research initiative, Technology in Education, has developed an online plagiarism detection tool called PAIRwise.

As the Internet becomes an indispensable part of university education, faculty members are finding new reasons for concern about plagiarism. Long a problem not easily addressed, the challenge of combating Internet plagiarism makes the task even more daunting.

PAIRwise offers instructors a tool that quickly and reliably deters and identifies likely instances of plagiarism. It is an automated, web-based system that compares students’ work with one another and searches the open Internet for matches with students’ work. PAIRwise is an easy-to-use tool that identifies likely plagiarism while leaving substantive judgments about what is appropriate to instructors themselves.

For more information visit www.pairwise.cits.ucsb.edu