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This chapter seeks to improve the detection of contract cheating. It explores, specifically, the role that academic judgement can and should play in this detection process. We argue that the judgement of academic teaching staff is vital to the improvement of detection levels. We use the example of bibliographic forensics to demonstrate how academic teaching staff can provide effective evidentiary support to a contract cheating investigation through the use of their academic judgement. We provide a series of practical examples, exemplars and finally a set of recommendations as to how partnershi...

/PRNewswire/ -- FLINT Systems is releasing the first linguistic tool designed to detect whether a document was authored by its attributed author. Unlike other...

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When considering a paradigm shift in higher education, it is imperative to focus on removing obstacles against maintaining integrity in academia. One such obstacle is contract cheating sites that have mushroomed disproportionately during the 18 months of emergency distance learning threatening graduate quality and university reputations (McKie, Essay mills targeting students as pandemic crisis shifts HE online, 2020). It was sharply brought to focus in 2015 due to a mass-scale scandal involving 16 universities and more than 1000 students leading to a subsequent law making such services illegal...

A new study of academic integrity policies and practices at 41 Australian universities found little evidence of changes to deal with cheating and academic misconduct arising from online assessment.