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A 50-year Retrospective on Academic Integrity and Computer Ethics in CS Education

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Nadia Najjar,

Mary Lou Maher,

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SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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In this project, we explore how academic integrity and teaching computer ethics have evolved within the SIGCSE community over the past 50 years. We apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to identify the topics in the records in 50 years of SIGCSE Symposia. We extract records that include these two themes and apply a temporal model identifying periods with an increase in the number of records that include these themes and a significant increase in 2017-2018.

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A 50-year Retrospective on Academic Integrity and Computer Ethics in CS Education
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning

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SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

March 2021

1454 pages

ISBN:9781450380621

DOI:10.1145/3408877

General Chairs:
Mark Sherriff
University of Virginia, USA
,
Laurence D. Merkle
Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
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Program Chairs:
Pamela Cutter
Kalamazoo College, USA
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Alvaro Monge
California State University, Long Beach, USA
,
Judithe Sheard
Monash University, Australia

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