As a teacher who used Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity), it was dead on. I taught an introductory course for non-CS majors and when MOSS detected something above 90% similarity, it meant cheating was involved. When I questioned the students, they all confessed. I would say about 20% of the class was caught cheating at one point of time or another.
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As a teacher who used Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity), it was dead on. I taught an introductory course for non-CS majors and when MOSS detected something above 90% similarity, it meant cheating was involved. When I questioned the students, they all confessed. I would say about 20% of the class was caught cheating at one point of time or another.