High School Student Perspective of Programming Plagiarism and Collusion

There are several programming courses offered to higher education. In these courses, instructors should educate students about programming plagiarism and collusion. They can rely on several studies about student perspectives on programming plagiarism and collusion. However, most of the studies are dedicated to current programming students. These studies might be less useful for instructors teaching introductory programming courses as most of the students just graduated from high school. This paper reports such perspective on 214 of 468 high school students via a questionnaire survey. A game programming session with Construct 3 was conducted beforehand to help students understand the concept of programming. Not all students had experienced programming. Our study shows that high school students are quite aware of programming plagiarism and collusion, except in the aspects of replicating features, having detailed discussion, asking advice, and reusing their own work (self-plagiarism).