Preventive strategies on cheating among international computer science students
Vladimir V. Riabov · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2017
Nowadays Rivier University experiences the exponential growth of international students (mostly from India) in M.S./Computer Science and M.S./Computer Information Systems programs. For the last 7 years, the number of students was grown by the factor of 12, and 436 degrees were conferred. The most significant increase of students in these programs took place in spring 2014 when the first large cohort of 48 international students arrived on campus (currently, we have 535 students), who brought new challenges mostly associated with the cultural and educational-system differences, such as weak academic background; weak code-programming and communication skills; ineffective study skills; numerous cases of cheating and plagiarizing (practically undetected among our traditional local graduate students); and attempts to avoid challenges in research studies by searching the existing patterns of the problem solving.