Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university students
By Tracey Bretag, Rowena Harper, M. Burton, Cath Ellis, P. Newton, Pearl Rozenberg, S. Saddiqui, K. van Haeringen. 2019
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ABSTRACT Recent Australian media scandals suggest that university students are increasingly outsourcing their assessments to third parties – a behaviour known as ‘contract cheating’. This paper reports on findings from a large survey of students from eight Australian universities (n = 14,086) which sought to explore students’ experiences with and attitudes towards contract cheating, and the contextual factors that may influence this behaviour. A spectrum of seven outsourcing behaviours were investigated, and three significant variables were found to be associated with contract cheating: dissatisfaction with the teaching and learning environment, a perception that there are ‘lots of opportunities to cheat’, and speaking a Language Other than English (LOTE) at home. To minimise contract cheating, our evidence suggests that universities need to support the development of teaching and learning environments which nurture strong student–teacher relationships, reduce opportunities to cheat through curriculum and assessment design, and address the well-recognised language and learning needs of LOTE students.
Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Safety Research
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- Jasper Roe
- Rowena Harper
- K. van Haeringen
- Cath Ellis
- Pearl Rozenberg
- P. Newton
- Tracey Bretag
- Mike Perkins
Citations in the corpus
- Does authentic assessment assure academic integrity? Evidence from contract cheating data (2020, background): “As has been previously reported, at least two thirds of the students who procure work from others for the purpose of submitting it as their own ultimately go on to do so (Bretag et al., 2018).”
- Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education (2020, background): “…which have found a generally negative relationship between English language ability and plagiarism include Abasi and Graves (2008), Bretag (2007), Bretag et al. (2018), Chen and Ku (2007), Goh (2015), Jones (2011), Li (2015), Marshall and Garry (2006), Pennycook (1996), Perkins et al. (2018),…”
- Contract cheating and assessment design: exploring the relationship (2018, background): “Previous analysis found that dissatisfaction with teaching and learning had a significant influence on actual cheating behaviour (Bretag et al. 2018).”