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Direct linkAwdry, Rebecca; Newton, Philip M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
Contract cheating is, potentially, a serious threat to the quality of higher education around the world. Prior research has focused on student perspectives and the companies themselves, but the staff view is poorly understood, despite staff being a major stakeholder with considerable influence over strategies designed to address contract cheating.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cheating, School Personnel, Employee Attitudes
Wallace, Melisa J.; Newton, Philip M. – Educational Studies, 2014
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…
Descriptors: Cheating, Plagiarism, Outsourcing, Web Sites
