Abstract
The transfer and teaching of programming and programming related skills has become, increasingly
difficult on an undergraduate level over the past years. This is partially due to the number of
programming languages available as well as access to readily available source code over the
Web. Source code plagiarism is common practice amongst many undergraduate students. This
practice has a detrimental effect on the presentation of specific content relating to introduction to
programming courses. One of the problems identified in the research conducted is that turnaround
time with relation to assessment and feedback, which are presented to the students, is a
critical factor in the subsequent success rates of the subject.
This paper investigates, utilizing a literature review, how plagiarism detection metrics and a
framework for providing effective feedback to students and educators could be implemented to
enhance the teaching and learning processes.
The predominant technique used for detecting plagiarism is to evaluate how a piece of source
code was constructed over time. By analyzing the students’ programming patterns, lectures can
be adapted to address problem areas and react accordingly. The paper also provides an overview
of current metrics used for plagiarism detection and suggests ways of improving the process by
including enhanced techniques for the gathering of metrics over time as well as suggesting ways
to use the metrics to aid learning on all cognitive levels.
Some of the key considerations presented as part of this research include effective feedback
mechanisms and real-time responses to plagiarism as well as contributing towards learning on
different cognitive levels.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001990 |
| Date | 01 January 2003 |
| Creators | Hattingh, F, Buitendag, AK, van der Walt, JS |
| Publisher | Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice |
| Relation | Researchgate |
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