Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
I delivered a workshop for the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences Learning and Teaching Conference at Sheffield Hallam University, which I presented as a way to encourage academics there to think about the type of assessments that they were asking students to complete.
Some of the recent contract cheating work that I’ve been engaged with and have found to be the most interesting has been looking at the marketing funnels behind contract cheating services.
This post contains a video version of a talk on exam cheating from the CSpace Conference at Birmingham City University.
Many academic studies looking at contract cheating think about this only from the point of view of this being a way for students to get essays, terms papers and assignments written for them. The reality is that the definition of contract cheating extends much more widely than that.
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.