Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

As students increasingly turn to essay mills to do their work, Anna McKie explores what drives this global trend and how universities are fighting it

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Universities are set to clamp down on essay cheats with the launch of new plagiarism software which will record and monitor a student’s writing style.

A new online resource developed by a research team at the Werklund School of Education is providing clarity on academic integrity for students in online and blended programs.  

Covering a range of topics, the tutorial offers guidance on how to build skills such as referencing and citing, to understanding assignments, to avoiding contract cheating sites that prey on students, to developing an explicit awareness about what academic integrity means at the University of Calgary.

Cultural and language barriers to English may confuse international students

There is no single best way to handle proctoring for digital courses, as this community college system pilot discovered.

NZQA’s findings from the 2017 NCEA Digital Trials and Pilots evaluation are being used to inform the 2018 project, as the organisation works towards having NCEA examinations available online by 2020.

As part of the Digital Trials and Pilots project, feedback was sought from the students, teachers, markers and examination centre managers who participated in the Trials and Pilots. This feedback has been valuable in providing insight into their experience, which is already informing the next steps NZQA takes with digital assessment in collaboration with schools and the wider education sector.
Feedback from students to the surveys shows we are on the right track. These are good indicative findings on which to build our future work.

No charges laid but millions paid in alleged 'cheating' service for uni assignments.

The rollout of online literacy and numeracy testing has been hailed a success with 99.9 per cent of students able to complete the assessment without technical problems.

International students at Murdoch University are being investigated for cheating and some have such poor English they are taking interpreters to class.

More than 2,000 students will swap the pen for the keyboard in their end-of-year English tests in an Australian first, with senior education staff predicting it could soon become the norm.

An increase in cheating by students leads to calls for "essay mills" to be banned.

For the first time, HSC students studying the new science extension course will do their final exam online.

Too often, it is felt that personalised feedback can only be provided in subjects with small learner enrolments. However, this case demonstrates that personalised, high-quality feedback can be provided consistently and at scale in a large first-year subject.

In this core Health subject, undertaken by learners from a broad range of disciplines, learners complete a series of three journal entries as their major assessment piece. Learners receive audio feedback from the same educator across their three journal entries, fostering a sense of personal connection between learner and educator. Educators also receive audio feedback through the feedback moderation process, which both ensures consistency amongst the large team of educators and supports the development of educators’ own feedback practices.

New paper says both teaching-intensive and research-intensive universities need to re-examine the way they assess students

Online students tend to be older, which might explain why new data suggest they're less likely to cheat. But even with these data, the evidence is mixed.

Sarah Elaine Eaton expands on a key point mentioned in her just published literature review of academic integrity in the Canadian context: contract cheating. Although there is a growing body of literature investigating the issue of contract cheating worldwide, little is known about it from the Canadian perspective.

For a few thousand dollars, university students can pay someone to sit an exam for them, or complete an entire subject. The Feed investigates what make

As universities grapple with a rise in contract cheating, technology is clamping down on the unethical practice by monitoring student’s unique writing styles.