Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses

Judy Sheard; null Simon; Matthew Butler; Katrina Falkner; Michael Morgan; Amali Weerasinghe

doi:10.1145/3059009.3059064

Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses

Judy Sheard, Simon, Matthew Butler, Katrina Falkner, Michael Morgan, Amali Weerasinghe

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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Abstract

Safeguarding academic integrity is an issue of concern to all computing academics due to high and rising levels of plagiarism and other cheating in computing courses. There have been many studies of the cheating and plagiarism practices of computing students and the factors that can influence these practices, and a variety of strategies for reducing cheating have been proposed. This national study of first-year computing programs provides insights into what strategies computing academics use to discourage or prevent their students from cheating. Having interviewed 30 academics from 25 universities we found 21 different types of strategy, which we classified into five themes: education; discouraging cheating; reducing the benefits of cheating; making cheating difficult; and empowerment. We also found that academics often employ strategies across all of these themes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Editors	Irene Polycarpou, Guido Rößling
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	244-249
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450347044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3059064
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2017
Event	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2017 - Bologna, Italy Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 5 Jul 2017 Conference number: 22nd https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3059009 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2017
Abbreviated title	ITiCSE 2017
Country	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	3/07/17 → 5/07/17
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3059009 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Academic integrity
Assessment
Cheating
CS1
Plagiarism

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10.1145/3059009.3059064

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Sheard, J., Simon, Butler, M., Falkner, K., Morgan, M., & Weerasinghe, A. (2017). Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses. In I. Polycarpou, & G. Rößling (Eds.), ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 244-249). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3059064

Sheard, Judy ; Simon, ; Butler, Matthew ; Falkner, Katrina ; Morgan, Michael ; Weerasinghe, Amali. / Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses. ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. editor / Irene Polycarpou ; Guido Rößling. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. pp. 244-249

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Sheard, J, Simon, , Butler, M, Falkner, K, Morgan, M & Weerasinghe, A 2017, Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses. in I Polycarpou & G Rößling (eds), ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 244-249, Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2017, Bologna, Italy, 3/07/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3059064

Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses. / Sheard, Judy; Simon, ; Butler, Matthew; Falkner, Katrina; Morgan, Michael; Weerasinghe, Amali.

ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ed. / Irene Polycarpou; Guido Rößling. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 244-249.

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Sheard J, Simon , Butler M, Falkner K, Morgan M, Weerasinghe A. Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses. In Polycarpou I, Rößling G, editors, ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 244-249 https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3059064