Academic misconduct in projects: Perspective of students and teachers of Introductory Computer Science courses

Academic misconduct is a frequent practice. Some examples are: to copy a work in whole or in part and present it as your own, or to buy academic work online. Introductory Computer Science courses are not an exception of these inappropriate situations. In projects (coding activities done in groups outside class) we use automatic plagiarism detection tools such as MOSS and JPlag. In addition, we have included a face-to-face instance (“defense”) where each student must make modifications in their own code in a maximum established time. In a previous work, we conducted a survey to all students of Computer Science II, where it turned out that 24 % of 115 students expressed that “defenses” were perceived as “not useful for validating authorship”. Based on this result, we decided to explore and deepen in the perceptions of both students and teachers on evaluations and propose strategies to help mitigate fraud.