Designing computer security assessments to reduce plagiarism

Rosanne English

doi:10.1145/3294016.3294020

Designing computer security assessments to reduce plagiarism

Rosanne English

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Abstract

Plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty for computing science assessments is a well documented issue. A common mode of dealing with this is to apply plagiarism detector software to code submissions to check for suspected plagiarism based on how similar submissions are. However, it arguably is less well established how to design computing science specifc assessments which aim to reduce the possibility of plagiarism, whilst not disadvantaging students who may struggle with some aspects of an assessment. This paper aims to report on the design and practice of such an assessment within a computer security course.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice, CEP 2019
Place of Publication	New York, NY.
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366311
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3294016.3294020
Publication status	Published - 9 Jan 2019
Event	Conference on Computing Education Practice - Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Jan 2019 → 9 Jan 2019 Conference number: 3 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3294020

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Conference	Conference on Computing Education Practice
Abbreviated title	CEP
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Durham
Period	9/01/19 → 9/01/19
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3294020

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plagiarism
plagiarism detector software
computer security

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