Correlation of a Flexible Late Day Policy with Student Stress and Programming Assignment Plagiarism

The False-Positive Rate of Automated Plagiarism Detection for SQL Assessments

“…Plagiarism is a significant and growing problem in Computer Science education [2,5,13]. A lot of research effort has been invested into trying to understand the causes of plagiarism and propose solutions [3,6,9,11,16,17]. Much of this effort has been directed towards Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

Piloting a Flexible Deadline Policy for a First-Year Computer Programming Course

“…On the other hand, research has shown potential drawbacks to flexible deadline policies if they are not implemented in a systematic and well-considered manner. Studies have indicated that haphazard implementation of flexible policies can lead to increased stress [11,12], poor time management practices [11,13], and more difficult learning outcomes [2,14].…”

“…In particular, many studies examine the effect of such deadlines for programming heavy courses. In general, it has been found that including no deadline whatsoever can lead to increased student stress [12] and increases the probability of plagiarism of programming assignments [13]. However, these same studies indicate that using flexible deadlines with added incentives for beginning assignments early improve student outcomes [12].…”

“…However, these same studies indicate that using flexible deadlines with added incentives for beginning assignments early improve student outcomes [12]. Additionally, grace periods with certain limits also improve such outcomes and reduce plagiarism without many of the negative effects of flexible deadlines without limits [17,13].…”