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How Common Is Commercial Contract Cheating in Higher Education and Is It Increasing? A Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2018
Contract cheating, where students recruit a third party to undertake their assignments, is frequently reported to be increasing, presenting a threat to academic standards and quality.
Philip M. Newton
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Detection of Online Contract Cheating Through Stylometry: A Pilot Study

open access: yesOnline Learning, 2020
Contract cheating, instances in which a student enlists someone other than themselves to produce coursework, has been identified as a growing problem within academic integrity literature and in news headlines. The percentage of students who have utilized
David Ison
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An Observational Analysis of the Range and Extent of Contract Cheating from Online Courses Found on Agency Websites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although online courses can provide access to higher education through e-learning systems which would not otherwise be available for students, they also pose challenges for academic integrity.
Clarke, Robert, LANCASTER, Thomas
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Fighting contract cheating and ghostwriting in Higher Education: Moving towards a multidimensional approach

open access: yesCogent Education, 2021
Contract cheating, or “ghostwriting” as it is more commonly known, has become a growing threat to academic integrity in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the world.
Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali, Awad Alhassan
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Removing the opportunity for contract cheating in business capstones: a crime prevention case study

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
Introduction With a definition that is evolving, a serious component of the contract cheating issue involves individuals paying a third-party to complete assessment items for them and then submitting this work as if it were their own.
Michael Baird, Joseph Clare
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Discursive Construction of Contract Cheating and Degradation of Higher Education: Comments on The Daily Mail Online

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2023
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, more attention has been paid to practices of academic integrity in higher education institutions (HEIs). Part of this focus has been on contract cheating, which involves the outsourcing of assessments to third ...
Jasper Roe
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Ethical and legal observations on contract cheating services as an agreement

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
In this paper we cast light on one form of dishonest behaviour in academia – contract cheating services. We examine how an agreement between a student and a contract cheating services provider is viewed from ethical and legal perspectives.
Loreta Tauginienė, Vaidas Jurkevičius
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Essay mills and other contract cheating services: to buy or not to buy and the consequences of students changing their minds

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2021
Very few parts of the world have legislation that prohibits the operation or the promotion of contract cheating services. This means that commercial companies providing such services can formally register and operate in most countries.
Michael Draper   +4 more
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Contract cheating will erode trust in science [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2019
To combat academic dishonesty, focus on educational systems and not just individual offenders, says Tracey Bretag. To combat academic dishonesty, focus on educational systems and not just individual offenders, says Tracey Bretag.
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Ghostwriting: Simulacra of Academic Performance

open access: yesВысшее образование в России, 2022
The article is a book review on “Ethnography of Bogus. Who and how writes customized academic essays in Russia” by A. Davydov and P. Abramov (Moscow: Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research: Common Place, 2021, 176 p.).
S. A. Sheypak
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