Contract cheating and assessment design : exploring the connection : final report.
A series of media scandals in 2015 generated significant public concern about 'contract cheating' in Australian higher education. Contract cheating was first described by Clarke and Lancaster in 2006, who identified that students in information technology programs in the United Kingdom wer...
| Institutions: | University of South Australia Griffith University University of New South Wales University of Sydney Swansea University |
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Australia. Dept of Education and Training (DET)
2019
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://ltr.edu.au/resources/SP16-5383_BretagandHarper_FinalReport_2019.pdf https://ltr.edu.au/resources/SP16-5383_BretagandHarper_AchievementStatement_2019.pdf |
| Περίληψη: | A series of media scandals in 2015 generated significant public concern about 'contract cheating' in Australian higher education. Contract cheating was first described by Clarke and Lancaster in 2006, who identified that students in information technology programs in the United Kingdom were using an industry freelancing platform, RentACoder, to employ professionals to complete their assignments. As awareness of the issue has grown, contract cheating has been identified in all discipline areas. The term is now understood to describe a range of 'outsourcing' behaviours in which students arrange for a third party (paid or unpaid) to complete their assessed work. This is how contract cheating was defined in this project. To support higher education providers respond to the challenge of contract cheating, the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching commissioned a Strategic Priority Project to explore the potential relationship between authentic assessment and academic integrity. Assessment design had been widely promoted as a solution to contract cheating by educational commentators and researchers, yet no evidence for its efficacy existed. The project also recognised that minimal data existed about the scale of the problem in Australia. This project therefore aimed to explore how approaches to authentic assessment might be used as part of an institutional strategy for minimising contract cheating. The project's five research questions are listed below, along with the key findings. The project gathered what is believed to be the largest and most comprehensive dataset on contract cheating in the world to date. Parallel staff and student surveys were conducted at eight universities and four nonuniversity higher education providers (NUHEP), with responses received from over 15,000 students and 1200 staff. A large dataset of assignment purchase orders posted by students to multiple online cheat sites showed the types of assessment commonly contracted out to third parties. Additionally, data from two universities' longitudinal academic integrity databases showed the assessment items in which purchased assignments had been detected. [Executive summary, ed] |
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| ISBN: | 9781760516857 (PDF) 9781760516864 (DOCX) 9781760516871 (print ed) 9781760516857 (PDF) 9781760516864 (DOCX) 9781760516871 (print ed) |
