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Assessing student programming - not agency RentACoding

Assessing student programming - not agency RentACoding. Thomas Lancaster UCE Birmingham Disciplinary Commons June 9 2006. Material sourced from: ‘Eliminating the successor to plagiarism? Identifying the usage of contract cheating sites’ Robert Clarke & Thomas Lancaster

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Assessing student programming - not agency RentACoding

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  1. Assessing student programming - not agency RentACoding Thomas Lancaster UCE Birmingham Disciplinary Commons June 9 2006 Material sourced from: ‘Eliminating the successor to plagiarism? Identifying the usage of contract cheating sites’ Robert Clarke & Thomas Lancaster JISC 2nd International Plagiarism Conference, Newcastle, June 19 – 21 2006

  2. A portfolio http://commons.thomaslancaster.co.uk

  3. Contract cheating process student creates bid request sellers bid to complete work… for a competitive price student selects a seller - funds placed in escrow bidder creates original work student submits original work

  4. Why bother? • Because students are using RentACoder. • 12.3% of bid requests on RentACoder represent contract cheating. • (3 week exhaustive check of RentACoder submissions i.e. 99 out of 803 bid requests).

  5. Extent of use • 236 contract cheaters identified over a 2 month period. • 19 (8.1%) made only a single bid request. • 122 (51.7%) made between 2 and 7 bid requests. • 6 (2.5%) made 51 or more bid requests.

  6. Redesigning assessment • Assess students when they can be monitored: • in lab assessments • Ensure that students understand what they have produced. • vivas • in lab assessment • Produce unique watermarked assignment specifications for every student.

  7. Only 1 identified this year http://www.rentacoder.com

  8. Any questions? Any answers?

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