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This article contributes to an emerging body of research on the role of assessment design in the prevention and detection of contract cheating. Drawing on the largest contract cheating datase
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Australia has a law against businesses offering assignments for sale to students, but that hasn’t stopped ‘contract cheating’. And new research shows it’s much more common than had been thought.
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This is the first of a three-part series on the “cheating economy.” See part two, about new efforts by colleges and governments to try to preven
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Service providers don’t like to call it “cheating” — they prefer the terms “academic writing” and “online tutoring.”
Peter Mellow's insight:
Link thanks to @RussPoulin
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This is the first of a three-part series on the “cheating economy.” See part two, about new efforts by colleges and governments to try to preven
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Manchester University recorded 7,000 hits to the five prominent essay-writing sites in May this year and Warwick University found more than 1,000 visits in August alone.
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Chinese international students at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) say ghostwriting agencies have obtained their student email addresses without their permission, and are repeatedly by-passing the university's firewall to entice them to cheat.
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Good Practice Note: Addressing contract cheating to safeguard academic integrity – October 2017
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Contract cheating companies often claim that students use ghostwriting services as a cry for help in a higher education system that is not listening to their needs. Is there some truth to that message?
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While there is growing awareness of the existence and activities of Academic Custom Writing websites, which form a small part of the contract cheating industry, how they work remains poorly understood. Very little research has been done on these sites, probably because it has been assumed that it is impossible to see behind their firewalls and password protection. We have found that, with some close scrutiny, it is indeed possible to find some ‘cracks’ in these sites through which we can look to gain insights into the business processes that operate within them. We have reverse engineered the business processes that operate within some of these sites. From this we have also been able to identify three different business models that are supported by these sites. Our analysis supports important findings about how these sites operate that can be used to inform future strategies to detect and deter contract cheating.
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In less than 24hours Aussie students can have now have an assessment written and submitted without even opening a text book, attending a lecture or logging onto a learning management system. With the new buzz industry of Copy Contracting hitting the underground world of education, students are being tempted to cheat in even more creative ways. Impressive websites that promise a production of services including essay writing, writing short answer questions through to bespoke dissertations and theses are being dangled in front of Australian students every day. These essay mills are promising the reproduction of any assessment content for as little as $130 in 24 hours’ turnaround time. Clever reassurance cues such as “Your order is 100% confidential” and “Zero plagiarism guaranteed” guide students into a false sense of security. Others offer emotional encouragement: “We know sometimes you’re having hard times writing your essays or overloaded with so much work”. Copy Contracting has become so normalised in the education sector that investigations have uncovered YouTube stars being paid to promote an academic cheating website based in the Ukraine, in videos with more than 700m views. Even if students manage to resist the urge to engage Copy Contracting services, they can...
Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight,
November 13, 2018 8:27 AM
Modern technology has expanded cheating techniques.
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Academics will be trained to better detect cheating by students, following an explosion of referrals of commercial cheating websites to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
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Serious cheating at the state’s two biggest universities was found at record levels last year, with students paying to have assignments done for them.
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IntroductionThis resource has been developed to provide the sector with information and background research on key topics associated with student assignment outsourcing and contract cheating.
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ABSTRACT This article contributes to an emerging body of research on the role of assessment design in the prevention and detection of contract cheating. Drawing on the largest contract cheatin
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AbstractContract cheating is the purchasing of custom-made university assignments with the intention of submitting them. Websites providing contract cheating services often claim this form o
Peter Mellow's insight:
Link thanks to @stephenharlow
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This is the second of a three-part series on the “cheating economy.” Read part one, and look for part three next week, about new kinds of cheatin
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Scrawled on bathroom walls at Monash University in Melbourne are advertisements in Chinese for essay writing services.
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To combat academic dishonesty, focus on educational systems and not just individual offenders, says Tracey Bretag.
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How do we address the international problem of contract cheating? These slides, presented remotely for Deree, The American College of Greece explore research i…
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(2019). Contract cheating and assessment design: exploring the relationship. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education: Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 676-691.
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Contract cheating is becoming an increasing problem for universities. Researchers are now identifying the telltale signs of the unethical practice.
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