Online assessment and checking of SQL: detecting and preventing plagiarism.

Russell, Gordon; Cumming, Andrew

Abstract

The automatic checking of online assessments and tutorials offers a significant advantage to students. Such students can work out-of-hours, from home or work, managing their own time allocation. This allows formal practical sessions to concentrate on learning, and not on assessments. However, there is a danger that students will abuse such systems, invalidating the assessment process. This paper investigates the plagiarism detected in a learning environment for SQL, and the effectiveness of the different techniques that it has used to eliminate plagiarism.

• Start Date: Jul 5, 2005
• End Date: Jul 7, 2005
• Publication Date: Jul 4, 2005
• Deposit Date: Jul 22, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 22, 2008
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 46-50
• ISBN: 0-9541927-8-8
• Keywords: Online assessments; Plagarism; SQL
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1772
• Contract Date: Jul 22, 2008