A review of the benefits and drawbacks of high-stakes final examinations in higher education

S French, A Dickerson, RA Mulder - Higher Education, 2024 - Springer
High-stakes examinations enjoy widespread use as summative assessments in higher
education. We review the arguments for and against their use, across seven common …

Contract cheating in higher education: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

K Ahsan, S Akbar, B Kam - Assessment & Evaluation in Higher …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Contract cheating is an increasingly challenging problem facing the higher education sector.
This study assesses the current state of contract cheating research from various …

Linking artificial intelligence facilitated academic misconduct to existing prevention frameworks

D Birks, J Clare - International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023 - Springer
This paper connects the problem of artificial intelligence (AI)-facilitated academic
misconduct with crime-prevention based recommendations about the prevention of …

Detecting contract cheating: examining the role of assessment type

R Harper, T Bretag, K Rundle - Higher Education Research & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article contributes to an emerging body of research on the role of assessment design in
the prevention and detection of contract cheating. Drawing on the largest contract cheating …

Why students do not engage in contract cheating

K Rundle, GJ Curtis, J Clare - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Contract cheating refers to students paying a third party to complete university assessments
for them. Although opportunities for commercial contract cheating are widely available in the …

Did the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an increase in academic misconduct in higher education?

B Ives, AM Cazan - Higher education, 2024 - Springer
The shift to online instruction in higher education related to the COVID-19 pandemic has
raised worldwide concerns about an increase in academic misconduct (cheating and …

Is plagiarism really on the rise? Results from four 5-yearly surveys

GJ Curtis, K Tremayne - Studies in Higher Education, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Historical trends in plagiarism are often estimated by comparing survey results from a
diverse range of samples, institutions, and measures. However, in multi-institution multi …

Plagiarism in higher education

SE Eaton - 2021 - torrossa.com
The pro cess of writing a book begins long before the first words are ever typed. At least,
that's how it has been for me. I suppose my obsession with citing, referencing, and source …

Contract cheating in UK higher education: A covert investigation of essay mills

D Medway, S Roper, L Gillooly - British Educational Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Predicting contract cheating intentions: Dark personality traits, attitudes, norms, and anticipated guilt and shame

GJ Curtis, J Clare, E Vieira, E Selby… - Personality and Individual …, 2022 - Elsevier
Contract cheating is a critical emerging threat to academic integrity in higher education.
Although some situational predictors of student engagement in contract cheating are known …