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Computing student practices of cheating and plagiarism: a decade of change

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ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 233 - 237

https://doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999813

Published: 27 June 2011 Publication History

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Cheating in undergraduate computing courses is an ongoing and widespread concern. In this paper we report an investigation of changes over the last decade in computing students' attitudes towards cheating practices, the extent of cheating behavior, and factors which influence cheating at an Australian university. A comparative analysis of data from surveys in 2000 and 2010 of undergraduate students in a School of Information Technology found that students in 2010 considered cheating less acceptable and the practice of cheating was reportedly lower. These results are discussed in terms of measures that have been taken to address this problem.

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