Research Into Contract Cheating And Student Plagiarism
As well as overviewing some key research findings on contract cheating, this talk particularly focused on the issues facing online universities, such as the Open University within the UK.
The slides, also available on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster, are included here.
The Times Higher Education and David Matthews have undertaken
a detailed look into the world of contract cheating and custom essay writing, in which Thomas Lancaster features prominently.
The article attempts to quantify the scale of the contract cheating and custom essay writing problem. This is difficult because it is largely underground, although estimates are obtained from official company figures and FOI requests from universities.
An interesting comments relates to students submitting their work in a format other than the one that an academic intended. This may be an indication that this uses a standard format pulled instead from an essay writing company.
Worth a read.
Advance notice for anyone who would like to attend one of the presentations on contract cheating from Robert Clarke and Thomas Lancaster.
We will be presenting a talk on Outsourcing Assignments? Exposing The Threat Posed By Contract Cheating To The Computing Industry for the British Computer Society on Wednesday 24 April 2013.
The event takes place in the evening, is free to attend, and advance booking is not required.