Student Perspectives on Source-Code Plagiarism: Case Study of Three Programming Courses

Abstract

Plagiarism is a serious offence and students plagiarise for various reasons. But sometimes students plagiarise and don’t even know that they are doing it. In this research a case study was conducted where questions, which describe different situations, were given to students. Questions are taken from an existing study which was conducted in the UK to get the perspective of academics. Similar questions were later given to students in the UK and China to get the student perspective. In this case, Croatian students from three programming courses (at three different levels) were questioned. In this paper the most interesting findings of student perspectives on plagiarism are presented together with some comparisons to the previous studies.

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