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University ‘Pay-for-grades’: the bait and switch search engine optimization strategies of contract cheating websites in the United States

International Journal for Educational Integrity
This paper presents the first systematic investigation into the search engine optimization practices of major contract cheating websites in the United States.
Timothy M. Daly, James C. Ryan
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Fear of failure: a student-facing investigation into the motivations for contract cheating and academic misconduct

Cogent Education
The advent of remote learning and the over-representation of international students in contract cheating literature have contributed to the beliefs that a digital pathway to higher education necessitates academic malpractice, and that this phenomenon is ...
Suraj Ajit, Aparna Maikkara, Wendy Ramku
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All academic misconduct behaviours are equal, but some are more equal than others: exploring educator perceptions of the impact of criminalising contract cheating on the academic misconduct landscape in the UK, through the lens of TPA

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Using thematic analysis and the Theory of Practice Architectures (TPA), this study assessed educator perceptions of the 2022 criminalisation of providing or advertising contract cheating (CC) services in the United Kingdom (UK).
Ellis Parkman
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EVALUATION OF CONTRACT CHEATING PREVENTION THROUGH FINAL PROJECT CHOICE POLICY

Jurnal Eduscience
Contract cheating is a serious problem faced by universities today that must be prevented immediately. This academic crime is mostly committed during the final project by students so so that each campus must have a clear policy to overcome this problem ...
Rizli Ansyari, Udik Budi Wibowo
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Contract cheating & the market in essays [PDF]

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015
AbstractWe conduct the first empirical economic investigation of the decision to cheat by university students. We investigate student demand for essays, using hypothetical discrete choice experiments in conjunction with consequential Holt–Laury gambles to derive subjects’ risk preferences. Students’ stated willingness to participate in the essay market,
Rigby, Dan, Burton, Michael, Balcombe, Kelvin, Bateman, Ian, Mulatu, Abay   +4 more
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Editorial: Contract cheating in Canada [PDF]

Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 2021
We present the second issue of the fourth volume of the Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity (CPAI). This issue consists of an invited historical article about contract cheating and the proceedings from the second Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity (CSAI) 2021 hosted virtually by Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia ...
Brandy Usick, Brenda M Stoesz
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Commercial contract cheating provision through micro-outsourcing web sites

International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2020
As the contract cheating market has become more sophisticated and competition has intensified, the contract cheating industry has had to redevelop its approach to gain custom.
Thomas Lancaster
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Detecting and prosecuting contract cheating with evidence – a “Doping Test” approach

International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2020
Contract cheating – outsourcing student assignments for a fee – presents a growing threat to the integrity of higher education. As contract cheating is based on students purchasing assignments that are original (albeit not created by the student ...
Pauli Alin
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Mitigating the Risk of Contract Cheating in UK Higher Education: A Multi-Level Solution

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 2022
The Higher Education sector in the UK faces a number of issues that pose a potential risk to the overall sustainability of the sector. A challenge that has become a growing concern recently is the increase in academic dishonesty and the fast-evolving ...
Elizabeth Spruin
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Detection of Online Contract Cheating Through Stylometry: A Pilot Study

Online 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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