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LTSN-ICS Plagiarism Workshop 2002
Prevention better than cure? The case for Plagiarism
Detection
H.C. Davis
IAM: Learning Technologies
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
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Structure of this Talk
(Largely concerned with Source Code Plagiarism)
• What is plagiarism?
• The causes of plagiarism?
• Approaches to preventing plagiarism
• Detecting Source Code Plagiarism
• Case Study using JPlag
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What is Plagiarism
Obviously direct wholesale copying of source…but– How much source should be the same in
well written solutions to a small problem?– What about buddying and team working?– How are we going to catch sub-contractors?
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Some Thoughts
• It is very difficult to prove copying
• It is even more difficult to prove sub-contracting
• This talk assumes that our intention is to prevent plagiarism rather than to get involved in post-hoc legislatation
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The causes of plagiarism?
• Over assessment
• Unrealistic expectations
• Strategic/cynical time management
• Cultural expectation
• Team working
• Fear of failure
• Laziness
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Approaches to preventing plagiarism (1)
• Clear university/departmental policyNeeds to define– What is plagiarism?– What will be done?– The borderline between acceptable collaboration
and unacceptable plagiarism
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Approaches to preventing plagiarism (2)
• Signed statements from students
Give them the opportunity to admit to what they needed to borrow in order to complete the assignment
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Approaches to preventing plagiarism (3)
• Logbooks
and
• Time-stamped code development
It is hard to reverse engineer this stuff (especially without learning!)
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Approaches to preventing plagiarism (4)
• Reduce assessment load
• Diversify type of assessments– (peer marking and review, multiple choice
questions, self assessed team assignments)
• Establishing a culture of learning (rather than mark grubbing)
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Approaches to preventing plagiarism (5)
• Detection
• Naming and shaming
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Detecting Source Code Plagiarism
• Must have all code on-line (floppies or hard copy not helpful)
• Simple searching for suspicious strings
• Scripts as above
• Simple byte code comparisons
• Specialised tools (JPLAG, MOSS, Coursemaster)
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Case Study Using JPLAG
Getting Started
• First get yourself registered with JPlag at http://www.jplag.de/
• (email [email protected])
• Download the JPlag applet
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2. Collect Student Assignments
• JPLAG expects one directory per student. That coursework can have subdirectories and JPLAG doesn’t care what the files are called.
• At Soton we have a handin machine which supplies a ZIP file of exactly such a directory file with the student’s username as the directory name, so all you have to do is unpack it where you want it.
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Run the Applet>c:\jdk1.3\bin\java –jar C:\jdk1.3\jplagapplet.jar
After a few minutes you will be able to see the results
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