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Cheating in Computer Science

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Murray, William Hugh·2010·Ubiquity
DOI 10.1145/1865907.1865908
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Many computer science teachers are very concerned about students cheating in their courses. Surveys report that almost three-quarters of high school students admit to cheating within the past year. John Barrie, founder of the plagiarism-detecting Web site Turnitin.com, says that about a third of the papers submitted to the site have significant levels of plagiarism. Many people say that the Internet has made cheating easier and harder to detect and they wonder if the moral fabric of our youth is fraying. In the trenchant analysis below, Bill Murray approaches the teaching-learning system as a game in which students, teachers, and others play various roles. He wonders whether the game itself encourages cheating, and suggests that teachers could restructure the game so that cheating is less rewarding and less likely. --Peter J. Denning

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Authors
Murray, W. H.
Affiliations
CISSP
Corresponding author
Murray, William Hugh
Venue
Ubiquity
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2010-10
Volume
2010
Issue
October
ISSN
1530-2180 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1145/1865907.1865908
OpenAlex
W1995440937
Semantic Scholar
15b7ae5bc6a31f372cd7e88503655b9101477f0e
Cited by
12
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
FWCI
0.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
Ubiquity (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection
Keywords
academic dishonesty, plagiarism, computer science education, teaching-learning system, game theory, student motivation, teacher role, Turnitin

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