Contract Cheating in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9783031126826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

This edited volume—the first book devoted to the topic of contract cheating—brings together the perspectives of leading scholars presenting novel research. Contract cheating describes the outsourcing of students’ assessments to third parties such that the assignments or exams students submit are not their own work. While research in this area has grown over the past five years, the phenomenon has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Themes addressed in this book include the definition of contract cheating, its prevalence in higher education, and what motivates students to engage in it. Chapter authors also consider various interventions that can be used to address contract cheating’s threat to academic integrity in higher education including: assessment practice, education, detection strategies, policy design, and legal interventions.

Spis treści

1. Contract Cheating: An Introduction to the Problem

2. Limitations of Contract Cheating Research

3. Understanding the True Prevalence Rate of Contract Cheating: Moving Beyond Student Self-Reports

4. The Extortionate Cost of Contract Cheating

5. Contract Cheating and the Dark Triad of Personality

6. Contract Cheating: The Influence of Attitudes and Emotions

7. Higher Ed Assessment Design

8. Critical Thinking as an Antidote to Contract Cheating

9. Addressing Contract Cheating Through Staff-Student Partnerships

10. The Encouragement of File-Sharing and the Impact on Student Cheating

11. Mapping the Academic Literacies Landscape of Outsourcing in Canadian Higher Education

12. Leveraging College Copyright Ownership Against File-Sharing and Contract Cheating Websites

13. The Rise of Contract Cheating in Graduate Education

14. Presentation, Properties, and Provenance: The Three P's of Identifying Evidence of Contract-Cheating in Student Assignments

15. "Impossible to Prove"?: Formalizing Academic Judgement Evidence in Contract Cheating Cases Using Bibliographic Forensics

16. Applying Situational Crime Prevention Techniques to Contract Cheating

17. A Brief Overview and Analysis of the Operation of Essay Mills and Contract Cheating from a Legal Point of View

18. Contract Cheating: A Policy and Practice Overview from Canada

19. Aligning Academic Quality and Standards with Academic Integrity

20. Conclusions and Future Directions

O autorze

Sarah Elaine Eaton is Associate Professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Guy J. Curtis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia.

Brenda M. Stoesz is Senior Faculty Specialist at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Joseph Clare is Associate Professor of Criminology in the Law School at the University of Western Australia.

Kiata Rundle is a PhD candidate in Psychology and Criminology at Murdoch University, Australia.

Josh Seeland is Manager of Library Services and Chair of the Academic Integrity Advisory Committee at Assiniboine Community College, Canada.