[Edu-sig] assigning homework

[Danyel Fisher]

I've had good experiences with MOSS
(http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html), although it takes a (gasp!)
Perl script to submit requests. In general, it seems to do a pretty good job
of picking out duplicate code. The times I used it, as a TA for a class of
several hundred, I was able to pull out a few unamiguous cases of
plagiarism.

(Cheaters don't seem to be terribly subtle about it).

Danyel

"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.999930980.15076.python-list at python.org...
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote:
>
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I'd like to get some ideas and opinions about homework assignments and
> >projects. It is obviously difficult to prevent students from looking at
one
> >another's code when working on projects. My inclination is to assume that
>
>
> try to search
>
> plagiarism programming
>
> on google - interesting results could be found.
> There are programs which even analise program structure
> to find similarities.
>
> Google has the whole category for the topic!
>
> However, probably it is possible to covert plagiarism into
> reuse by group work.
>
> Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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