Collaboration Versus Cheating: Reducing Code Plagiarism in an Online MS Computer Science Program
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We outline how we detected programming plagiarism in an introductory online course for a master's of science in computer science program, how we achieved a statistically significant reduction in programming plagiarism by combining a clear explanation of university and class policy on academic honesty reinforced with a short but formal assessment, and how we evaluated plagiarism rates before and after implementing our policy and assessment.
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- Authors
- Mason, T., Gavrilovska, A., & Joyner, D. A.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-02-22
- Pages
- 1004-1010
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- 39
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- 51
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- 4.69
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- conference paper
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- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Keywords
- academic dishonesty, academic integrity, plagiarism detection, online programming courses, introductory computer science, assessment design
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