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Enhancing Student Employability Through The Peer Review Of Professional Online Presences

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I’ve previously shared my work on integrating student Professional Online Presences into teaching at various conferences and invited talks, but it’s a couple of years since I’ve provided a research update. The ideas are now much more accepted and mainstream when they were when I first started working in the field. Many students realise that …

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An Exploration of Contract Cheating and Academic Misconduct Within Health Education

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One of the more interesting inter-disciplinary topics I’ve been involved with is that of cheating in healthcare. This covers examples that we’ve found in our research, ranging across nursing, pharmacy, medicine and other health disciplines. I got the chance to present some of the findings from that research at a talk that formed part of …

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The Implications of Plagiarism and Contract Cheating for the Assessment of Database Modules

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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 …

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Attributing Contract Cheating Through The Turnitin Text Matching Service

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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 …

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An Initial Analysis Of The Contextual Information Available Within Auction Posts On Contract Cheating Agency Websites Video Presentation

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Here is a presentation of a recent paper I coauthored with Robert Clarke presented in video form. The presentation muses on the detection opportunities afforded to contract cheating through a consideration of the wider context on which requests on agency sites are made. The video is also available on the YouTube account for Thomas Lancaster …

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