Contract cheating in UK higher education: A covert investigation of essay mills          下载免费PDF全文

Dominic Medway  Stuart Roper  Leah Gillooly 《British Educational Research Journal》2018,44(3):393-418

Contract cheating is currently a concern for universities and the higher education (HE) sector. It has been brought into the spotlight in recent years through the growth of online essay mills, where students can easily commission and purchase written assessment responses. This study contributes to the wider literature on academic integrity in HE by examining the phenomenon of contract cheating from a supply‐side perspective, thereby considering the essay mill offering and student interaction with it. The authors covertly engage with five essay mills, before successfully completing an assignment purchase with two of these providers. The pre‐purchase stage of an assignment transaction is first examined, unpacking ten reassurance cues used by essay mill providers in the text of their websites. These reassurance cues help to ensure the attractiveness of the essay mill product to potential student consumers. The analysis then moves to explore the ethical discourses around academic integrity that essay mills provide, revealing inconsistencies in their stance towards the potential for academic misconduct from the use of essay mill services. Finally, the article explores the quality of the essay mill product, through grading and Turnitin^® reports for the two purchased essay mill assignments. Following recent calls for the outlawing of essay mills, this article provides a timely addition to current understanding of this phenomenon, and the associated challenges of contract cheating in HE.  相似文献   

Match-Fixing in Cornish Wrestling during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries     

Michael Tripp 《国际体育史杂志》2018,35(2-3):157-172

Abstract

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Cornish wrestling, which was distinctive to Cornwall, was the county’s most popular sport, with a large number of wrestlers competing for lucrative prizes at numerous tournaments and watched by thousands of spectators. Its popularity also extended to London, where sporting entrepreneurs, mainly publicans, organized and promoted wrestling in the Cornish style, when the best wrestlers were lured to the capital to compete for large prizes, witnessed by substantial crowds, which often included members of the nobility. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Cornish wrestling suffered a serious decline in popularity with fewer wrestlers, tournaments, and spectators. By 1900 the sport had almost died out and only survived due to the efforts of a small group of talented wrestlers who inspired a minor revival in the years leading up to 1914. One factor that contributed to the decline was the practice of ‘faggoting’, which was a form of match-fixing that involved wrestlers agreeing with opponents to share any prize money. Consequently, the sport developed a bad reputation and became very unpopular with spectators. In order to eradicate the practice, wrestling organizers issued regular warnings to wrestlers or excluded them from tournaments.  相似文献   

大学生考试舞弊现象的归因与对策分析     

冯晓玲 《考试研究》2009,(2):60-67

大学生考试舞弊行为由多种原因所致,主要包括社会因素、心理因素与教育因素三个方面。对于大学生考试舞弊现象,需要从施行诚信教育、提升教学水平、改革考试制度等多方面入手,将之当做一项系统的社会工程进行综合治理,才能收到标本兼治的效果。  相似文献   

从违纪处理实践角度探讨大学生考试违纪的预防     

梁泽磊  张同心 《科教文汇》2013,(29):5-6

本文结合工作实际,从对大学生考试违纪事实处理的角度,探讨考试违纪的现象及其背后的原因,从而有针对性地提出一些预防大学生考试违纪的措施。  相似文献   

大学生学习态度和考试作弊的现状调查     

陈孜  卢溪  石健 《黑龙江教育学院学报》2012,31(3):78-81

端正学生的学习态度和杜绝考试作弊是各大高校普遍面临的问题。基于此,以四川省内的一所医学院校和工科院校的学生为对象,调查了在校大学生的学习态度和考试作弊的实际情况,并针对反映出的问题进行原因分析与对策探索,以期促进大学生进一步端正学习态度,进而形成良好的学风和考风。  相似文献   

Turnaround time and market capacity in contract cheating     

Melisa J. Wallace 《Educational studies》2014,40(2):233-236

Contract cheating is the process whereby students auction off the opportunity for others to complete assignments for them. It is an apparently widespread yet under-researched problem. One suggested strategy to prevent contract cheating is to shorten the turnaround time between the release of assignment details and the submission date, thus making it difficult for students to make arrangements with contractors. Here, we outline some characteristics of the current market for contract cheating and demonstrate that short turnaround times are unlikely to prevent contract cheating because requested turnaround times for university-level assignments completed via contract cheating are already short (average 5?days). In addition, for every contractor awarded a job, there are an average of 10 others offering to complete it within the specified time suggesting that there is abundant excess capacity in the market.  相似文献   

Cheating as subversive and strategic resistance: vocational students’ resistance and conformity towards academic subjects in a Swedish upper secondary school     

《Ethnography and Education》2013,8(3):341-355

This article is based on a field study in two boy-dominated classes in a vocational programme in a Swedish upper secondary school. The focus of the article is the boys’ perspective on their cheating activities during lessons and tests within academic subjects. Since the boys often regarded these subjects as boring and useless in relation to their future work as construction workers, their cheating is analysed as a matter of anti-school attitudes and a form of resistance to these subjects. Even if cheating is a violation of school norms, celebrated and seen as amusing by the boys, it was also an acknowledgement of the authority of the school; that is they recognised that the academic subjects could have importance for them in the future. Thus, a ‘good’ grade was assumed to improve their chances of getting a job later.  相似文献   

Maintaining academic integrity among East African university students     

《Africa Education Review》2013,10(3):452-465

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to examine the extent to which academic integrity is maintained in the academic programmes of three East African university students selected from one of the universities in each one of the three countries. For confidentiality and identification purposes, the universities were labeled A, B and C. The level of academic integrity was interpreted on the basis of the extent to which participants admitted to have engaged in plagiarism and academic misconduct in its various manifestations. The findings clearly indicated that academic dishonesty is widely practised by East African university students. The extent to which this held true varied from one item to another of the sixteen questionnaire statements with the highest score being in items related to plagiarism. Overall, 37% of the students in university C, followed by 32% of students in university A and 24% of students in university B engaged in academic dishonesty. The rate at which academic dishonesty was reported was comparable to what has been reported in other countries including Canada, Ethiopia, South Africa, the UK and USA.  相似文献   

大学生考试舞弊的动因浅析及其应对措施     

周广林  陈娇 《黑龙江教育学院学报》2013,(11):121-124

考试舞弊违背了公平公正的原则和公民诚实守信的基本道德要求,为社会所不容.从社会环境及观念、教育理念及教学模式、考试方式及学习质量评价体系、教学管理因素、考生的心理因素等方面,分析了大学生考试舞弊的动因,推出了通过抓教风,带学风,促考风;积极推进考试方式和考试内容的改革;重视诚信教育;培养学生正确的考试观等措施,控制舞弊现象的产生,并践行了部分理论,收到了预期的效果.  相似文献   

大学生考试作弊问题浅议     

满晖晖 《怀化学院学报》2000,(6)

针对当前大学生考试作弊屡禁不止的问题,进行认真分析,列举其种种表现,指出其严重危害,剖析其产生因素,进行对如何防治和杜绝大学生考试作弊现象提出看法。  相似文献