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Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to an Increase in Academic Misconduct in Higher Education?
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Bob Ives; Ana-Maria Cazan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
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 plagiarism). However, data to document any increase is sparse. For this study, we collected survey data from 484 students in 11 universities in the USA, and 410 students in five…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Cheating, Plagiarism
Assignment Outsourcing: Moving beyond Contract Cheating
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Awdry, Rebecca – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
The extent and reach of commercial cheating opportunities is ever present; thousands of websites promote differing business models offering assignments in multiple languages and currencies. In addition to commercial companies, students are known to outsource their assignments from friends and family. Assignment outsourcing and contract cheating…
Descriptors: Assignments, Outsourcing, Cheating, Contracts
Students Cheat More Often from Those Known to Them: Situation Matters More than the Individual
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Awdry, Rebecca; Ives, Bob – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Research on contract cheating usually considers most forms of outsourcing combined, although studies have found that students more commonly obtain work from those known to them, rather than from commercial sites; yet little research exists which explores which variables and motivators may be associated with this type of outsourcing. Strategies…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Behavior, Outsourcing, Predictor Variables
Academic Dishonesty in Virtual Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Study
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Hossein Navidinia; Adrian Naznean; Maha Sourani; Nargess Hekmati – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Online teaching has gained more momentum since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this mode offers many benefits, one major concern is maintaining academic integrity, as online instruction can provide more opportunities for cheating. This study aimed to explore students' attitudes toward cheating in online assessments (OAs) and any…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Computer Assisted Testing, COVID-19
Survey on Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Academic Integrity from a Student Perspective
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Kimizoglu, Iris, Ed.; Vespa, Matteo, Ed. – European Students' Union, 2023
Academic freedom is the most important pillar that underpins and enables a democratic and free higher education sector. Given that the academic and political debate on the concept of academic freedom tends to be one-sided and confined to the needs and experiences of academic staff and researchers, as well as in face of the ongoing attacks on the…
Descriptors: College Students, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Academic Dishonesty and Academic Adjustment among the Students at University Level: An Exploratory Study
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Clinciu, Aurel Ion; Cazan, Ana-Maria; Ives, Bob – SAGE Open, 2021
The tendency to cheat is consubstantial to any kind of education and training process involving work and effort. The study was conducted on 194 participants, first- and second-year students from the bachelor and master's programs from several engineering and humanities faculties from Brasov. The Academic Adjustment Questionnaire and the Academic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Student Behavior, College Students