Academic integrity: Differences between computing assessments and essays

Simon, Simon; Cook, Beth; Sheard, Judithe; Carbone, Angela; Johnson, Chris

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Academic integrity: Differences between computing assessments and essays

Date

2013

Authors

Simon, Simon

Cook, Beth

Sheard, Judithe

Carbone, Angela

Johnson, Chris

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Abstract

There appears to be a reasonably common understanding about plagiarism and collusion in essays and other assessment items written in prose text. However, most assessment items in computing are not based in prose. There are computer programs, databases, sp