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Directions and dimensions in managing cheating and plagiarism of IT students

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ACE '12: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 123

Pages 177 - 186

Published: 31 January 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The problem of cheating at university is a widespread and long-standing issue. There are a variety of strategies that are used to address the problem which broadly fall into the areas of education, prevention, detection and consequence. An important consideration when deciding to tackle the problem of cheating is that the effectiveness of methods for addressing cheating are not necessarily the same for the different types of cheating. This paper presents an investigation of cheating practice of undergraduate IT students using a factor analysis to determine categories of cheating behaviour and influences on this behaviour. The implications arising from this analysis for addressing cheating are then examined and recommendations made for strategies which are appropriate for particular types of cheating.

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Directions and dimensions in managing cheating and plagiarism of IT students
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ACE '12: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 123

January 2012

214 pages

ISBN:9781921770043

Editors:
Michael de Raadt
Moodle Pty Ltd, Perth, WA, Australia
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Angela Carbone
Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia

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Published: 31 January 2012

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