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 |
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
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| Abbreviated title | ITiCSE 2017 |
| Country | Italy |
| City | Bologna |
| Period | 3/07/17 → 5/07/17 |
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Keywords
- Academic integrity
- Assessment
- Cheating
- CS1
- Plagiarism
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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.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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