 An approach to detecting plagiarism in spreadsheet assignments: A digital answer to digital cheatingAnil Singh, George Mangalaraj and Aakash Taneja Journal of Accounting Education, 2011, vol. 29, issue 2, 142-152 Abstract: Accounting instructors often experience frustration when confronted by plagiarism in student assignments. Also, they face difficulty verifying and proving cases of plagiarism. Students have increasingly found it easier to plagiarize assignments because of digitization in education. Instructors face an important pedagogical challenge due to digitization based plagiarism. Digitization, however, provides instructors with tools to address this issue. This paper showcases three tried and tested methods built into spreadsheet software to identify and detect plagiarism in spreadsheet based assignments. The first method is a manual method of hiding unique markers in files sent to students. The second method involves hiding a formula that can track plagiarism in more detail. The third method uses a program code to track issues related to authorship of assignments. These methods along with a compiled list of strategies discussed in this paper can help reduce plagiarism. Keywords: Spreadsheet assignments; Pedagogical issues; Plagiarism detection; Digital plagiarism (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:joaced:v:29:y:2011:i:2:p:142-152 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2012.02.002 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Accounting Education is currently edited by Natalie Tatiana Churyk More articles in Journal of Accounting Education from Elsevier |
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