Research Into Contract Cheating And Student Plagiarism
Here are the slides from a short keynote presentation at the Westminster Higher Education Forum. They addressed the reasons why students choose to commit contract cheating.
The slides are available on the SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster. They are also included below.
This presentation looked at three different types of student cheating and the types of intelligent context-aware systems that could be used to detect them.
Of interest to visitors to this site, one of the cheating behaviours considered was contract cheating.
The presentation took place at the ICAS 2013, workshop. The slides, hosted on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster, are included here.
Here’s an interesting aside from the wider literature relating to student cheating which had totally passed me by until I saw the phrase used in a media report.
The term pseudepigraphy is used within some literacy and linguistic fields to describe a piece of writing where the author is not the person listed. For instance, a lot of ghostwritten celebrity autobiographies could fall within the field of
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Likewise, the paper mentions the term cyber-plagiarism, but that has also largely fallen out of favour. Most people just use the term plagiarism, which is dominated by what would have been called plagiarism in the past.
The paper itself is useful as it raises some early issues related to contract cheating, from around the same time as the initial body of contract cheating research was being published. In fact, a number of less-specific terms exist also, as the idea of someone writing an assignment for another student dates back for decades, but it would be useful exercise for someone to carry out a literature review looking at this development, and how the terminology has changed across different fields.