Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
As part of our research into contract cheating, we collect a lot of examples of the ways that students have tried to cheat in different subject areas and academic disciplines. Along with Robert Clarke, I wrote a paper for the International Teaching Learning and Assessment of Databases workshop (also known as TLAD). This paper looked …
Birmingham City University holds a research conference, Rescon, in December of each year, providing short accessible shorts from staff and PhD students about their research. My session built on work presented to the Higher Education academy looking at how text matching algorithms supplied by Turnitin could be used as part of the attribution of contract …
Attributing Contract Cheating Through The Turnitin Text Matching Service Read More »
These slides come from a talk delivered for Engineering at the University of Sheffield. They contain many more examples specific to that academic discipline than my usual talks. The slides, can be accessed on my SlideShare account, or viewed below. The slides also contain details of the cheating scandal in Australia, including the link between …
Some of the recent published work by Ann Rogerson is of interest to those of us involved with contract cheating research. Ann has been looking at the indicators within texts that might show that work has not been written by the student who handed it in. The work was presented at the 6th International Integrity …
Developing New Approaches For The Automated Detection Of Contract Cheating Read More »
As part of a recent project with the Higher Education Academy, I developed a set of audio podcasts looking at how students can create their own Professional Online Presence to aid in their employability. The podcasts created are available here, and a blog detailing their production is also available. During the time podcasting, I’ve come …
Six Lessons From The Development Of My First Set Of Podcasts Read More »