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teaching of programming evaluation grading plagiarism assignments

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  • Some plugins for moodle, include: OnlineJudgeAssignmentType grades programming assignments automatically AntiPlagiarismBlock uses moss and duplication to detect plagiarism in assignments HotQuestionActivity collects students' questions in non-virtual classroom. Pack all submissions of assignments
  • Manuel Menezes de Sequeira on 28 Nov 10
     
    Interesting plugins for Moodle allowing automatic grading of programming assignments, detection of plagiarism, etc.
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computer science cheating programming assignments collaboration

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  • "We worry less about catching cheaters. We worry more about properly assessing the student's skill set," Stallworth says. "Less percentage of the grade is from homework and more percentage is from the assessment, and the assessment is designed to truly [measure] skills. Then you can cheat on homework, but that's not going to help you with the assessment that counts for the bulk of your grade."
  • "We haven't seen an increase in failure rates," Stanford's Sahami says, adding that 5% or less of students typically fail introductory computer classes. "This is not a student body that accepts failure. For them to pass all of their classes is an important thing."
  • Luís Nunes on 21 Apr 10
     
    Interesting points: Top US universities use assignments followed by oral assessment, the latter counting for "the bulk of the grade", to discourage academic dishonesty (as we have been doing at ISCTE). I heard the idea on "encouraging collaboration" previously, but not with the acknowledgment of "other students that helped". I'm not sure it would bring any advantages to the current situation. It would probably just delay the self-awareness of a student's limitations until the "oral assessment". Another idea on the subject (from Abílio Oliveira, I think?) that would be worth trying is an honor-statement that students would have to deliver, signed, in which they vow that their work was solely done by themselves. This forces students to be more conscious about cheating and some that will cheat, will probably not sign such a statement.
  • Manuel Menezes de Sequeira on 21 Apr 10
     
    Yes. A code of honor would help. Perhaps we need a range of approaches: * Augment the weight of collaboration-based, individually evaluated assignments. * Separate more clearly collaboration-based tasks from individual tasks. Isolated groups of students may be counterproductive. Instead, group assignments would stimulate collaboration even among groups. * Perhaps this requires extra individual feedback for the students, some of which might be self-assessment. * State clearly in a code of honor what is expected of the students. Maybe a system of labels and icons could be used to identify clearly the type of assignment.
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