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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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Are competition and extrinsic motivation reliable predictors of academic cheating? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Previous studies suggest that extrinsic motivation and competition are reliable predictors of academic cheating. The aim of the present questionnaire study was to separate the effects of motivation- and competition-related variables on academic cheating ...
Gábor Orosz   +8 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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Interinstitutional perspectives on contract cheating: a qualitative narrative exploration from Canada

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2019
This paper explores contract cheating from the perspectives of researchers at three post-secondary institutions in Alberta, Canada, describing their efforts to develop and advance awareness of, interventions against, and responses to contract cheating at
Sarah Elaine Eaton   +3 more
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Contract Cheating ‘Pseudepigraphy’. A Cardinal Sin in Higher Education? A Phenomenological Narrative of Andragogical Experiences, Insights and Reflections [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) study is a reflection on valuable insights gained by the authors in supervising graduate students’ theses, dissertations, and project works/reports, active participation in seminars on ethics in higher ...
Reuben Agbelengor Glover   +2 more
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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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Verifying student identity in oral assessments with deep speaker

open access: yesComputers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Contract cheating, a form of academic misconduct in which students outsource assessment activities to third parties, is a topic of concern among educators.
Jake Renzella   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Education as a Financial Transaction: Contract Employment and Contract Cheating [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
AbstractOver the last decade, high-profile cases of academic misconduct have surfaced across Canada (Eaton, 2020a). I argue that it is systemic issues that contribute to their ubiquity: knowledge is seen as a commodity, transcripts and credentials as products, and students as consumers. As provincial governments in Ontario and Alberta introduce funding
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Can we detect contract cheating using existing assessment data? Applying crime prevention theory to an academic integrity issue

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
Objectives Building on what is known about the non-random nature of crime problems and the explanatory capacity of opportunity theories of crime, this study explores the utility of using existing university administrative data to detect unusual patterns ...
Joseph Clare, Sonia Walker, Julia Hobson
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Detecting contract cheating in essay and report submissions: process, patterns, clues and conversations

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
Detecting contract cheating in written submissions can be difficult beyond direct plagiarism detectable via technology. Successfully identifying potential cases of contract cheating in written work such as essays and reports is largely dependent on the ...
Ann M. Rogerson
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