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

ITiCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 233-237

  Sheard, Judy ^a   Dick, Martin ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cheating; plagiarism; undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

CHEATING; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTING COURSE; PLAGIARISM; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79960322125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999747.1999813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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