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Why students do not engage in contract cheating: a closer look
International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023 Contract cheating – students outsourcing assignments to ghost-writers and submitting it as their own – is an issue facing tertiary education institutions globally.
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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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Education Sciences, 2023 There has been a growing number of contract cheating incidents recorded in Australia’s higher education system. Such activities create a significant threat to the validity and integrity of qualifications obtained by students.
Deepani B. Guruge, Rajan Kadel
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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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International Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2021 Instructors typically use widely available plagiarism detection tools to uncover overlapping vocabulary with other texts; however, they lack empirical evidence on measures differentiating between student writing and outsourced papers.
Kathleen Bailey, Eniko Csomay
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Frontiers 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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Cogent 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
International 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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Ethical and legal observations on contract cheating services as an agreement
International 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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Forum: 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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