In response to growing academic dishonesty in low- level computer science and electrical and computer engineering courses, we present extit{checksims}, a similarity detector designed to highlight suspicious assignments for instructor review. We report the design rationale for the software, and describe our detection of dozens of previously undetected cases of academic dishonesty in previous classes.

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Creator

• Murvihill, Dolan Patrick
• Heon, Matthew

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043015-122310

Advisor

• Lauer, Hugh C

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved