Contract Cheating – Addressing The Business School Challenge
There are specific challenges for Business Schools looking to identify and address contract cheating.
There are specific challenges for Business Schools looking to identify and address contract cheating.
Benjamin Dent and I collected and analysed data from the Freelancer.com website, relating to contract cheating requests for written student work.
As part of an event held as part of Ireland’s Academic Integrity Week on 22 October 2020 and supported by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, I was asked to talk about the business of contract cheating.
This post identifies 10 research findings which are of particular interest to researchers now and which should inform the next decade of work in this area of student cheating.
One of the biggest challenges I’ve had recently is condensing some of the research highlights behind contract cheating into a talk timed to last just 10 minutes, for Birmingham City University’s RESCON conference. The slides, also available on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster, are the result. This talk looked particularly at the pricing of essays, …