doi: 10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.688
Exploring the Usage of Existing Plagiarism Tools for Automated Student Assessment for Java Program
Sonal Jain1
,
Mayuri Singhal1 ,
Axita Shah2
- 1Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, Rajasthan
- 2Elegant Microweb pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad, India
Abstract
Plagiarism is the act of copying someone else work without acknowledging the person. Various plagiarism tools exist for natural and programming languages to check if the offence has been committed. This paper discusses the use of plagiarism tools for automated assessment of student java programs. Automated assessment involves evaluating or assessing student’s work automatically with the aid of computer. Plagiarism tools are utilized for finding similarity between teacher and student solution. In order to test if the existing tools for source code plagiarism detection can be used to find similarity between student and teacher solutions and how the tools behave in case of different structural and lexical modifications, two of the existing tools; JPlag and Ferret were used to test teacher’s solutions with students’ solutions. JPlag was further explored with larger testbed, however variations in the results were observed making it difficult to conclude the usage of existing Plagiarism tool for automated assessment.
Keywords
- Automated assessment
- plagiarism tools
- JPlag
- ferret
How to Cite
Sonal Jain, Mayuri Singhal, and Axita Shah, "Exploring the Usage of Existing Plagiarism Tools for Automated Student Assessment for Java Program," International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 219-223, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.688
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Copyright © 2016 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).