Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Here is a teaching focused talk on contract cheating I delivered for the Computer Science department at the University of Sheffield. The slides, can be accessed on my SlideShare account, or viewed below. There are several new and recent examples in this presentation, with less direct focus on research results. One example includes a sting …
Contract Cheating In 2014 – What Online Cheating Is Happening Today Read More »
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 …
A small success from our contract cheating work. We’ve found a way to improve on percentage of assignments found on agency sites which we’re able to attribute to academic institutions. The secret? We’ve taken to running difficult to attribute assignment specifications through Turnitin, the plagiarism detection engine. It sounds counter-intuitive, but these often identity with …
Using Turnitin As A Tool For Attribution In Cases Of Contract Cheating Read More »
This is the second of two talks I delivered on contract cheating at a Birmingham City University workshop funded by the Higher Education Academy. The focus of this talk was on three areas for people considering what to do about contract cheating: prevention, detection and policy. Several of the slides are prompt led and this …
The Prevention And Detection Of Contract Cheating Read More »
This is a different talk on contract cheating to the ones that I normally deliver, as this was part of a general training workshop for contract cheating funded by the Higher Education Academy. This is the first of two talks I delivered that day (Bob Clarke also contributed an activity). The focus was particularly on …