- Title
- In their own words: students and academics write about academic integrity
- Creator
- Simon; Sheard, Judy
- Relation
- 15th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research. Koli Calling '15 Proceedings of the 15th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli, Finland 19-22 November, 2015) p. 97-106
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2828959.2828977
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- We report on a survey of Australian computing students and academics that was designed to explore their thoughts about academic integrity with regard to the assessments undertaken in computing degrees. A number of questions on the survey permitted free-text responses, and we have conducted a qualitative analysis of those responses to identify concerns that were not covered in the quantitative part of the survey and to uncover new perspectives on issues that were covered in the survey. In response to specific questions, we identified a perception that copying program code without reference can be legitimate; a perception that copying of program code cannot be detected because all correct answers will effectively be the same; and some suggestions, possibly hitherto unreported, as to why students might engage in academic misconduct. In response to a completely open question, we identified four themes, concerning the implementation and the applicability of academic integrity policy and procedure, possible reasons for breaching academic integrity, and justifications for breaching academic integrity. We conclude by discussing what can be done, by universities and by individual academics, to bring the academic discipline of computing closer to consensus with regard to the meaning of academic integrity and its practice in computing assessments.
- Subject
- computing education; Australia; academic integrity; program code
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316990
- Identifier
- uon:23302
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781450340205
- Language
- eng
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