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Thomas LancasterRobert Clarke
School of Computing, Telecommunications and NetworksBirmingham City University
© Lancaster & Clarke 2010
“Do It For Me!”
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Is Plagiarism Dead?
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Our work on Contract Cheating has demonstrated two things:
(1) that there is a market for the ‘Do It For Me!’ solution…
(2) that students are getting more knowledgeable and sophisticated…
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Students Ask…
Marketing Forum
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AuctionSite
Suppliers Advertise…
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Online “small ads”
web site
Leaflet handed out to students
Cheating Like a Student is Easy
• Set up an anonymous e-mail account = 5 minutes• Set up and link a RentACoder account = 5 minutes• Place bid request = 5 minutes
Approved on: Aug 27, 2008 6:42:06 AM EDT
First Bid: Aug 27, 2008 6:44:34 AM (for $30)
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HEA ICS Conference 2008
And Cheap!• 7 bids within 1 hour
• 59 bids in total, ranging from $4 to $30
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Question
What Can We DoAbout It?
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Need to Think About‘Managing Academic Misconduct and
Preventing Plagiarism’ in the context of ‘Do It For Me!’
TurnItIn is not the solution
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TurnItIn is a text matching algorithm.
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Here are five areas in which we must improve.
1. Make Assessment Personal
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Individually Focused Assessments
Assess Both Process and Product
Use Integral Vivas
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Assessing ‘process’; Using a viva
Limit number of marks for the “product”
Use of a “scripted”
viva
Assignment also tagged:Team “Escandov” used in a
Google Alert
2. Tighten Academic Procedures
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Make Penalties ‘Fit The Crime’
Build in Review Process for Regulations
Record Anti-Cheating Measures During Moderation
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Department of Computing at BCU required staff to define anti-cheat measure for each element of assessment
Next move – require the reporting back of success of these measures in module reports with best practice going forward to the annual course report.
3. Make Cheating Unacceptable to
Students
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Ethical Angle: Is Cheating Victimless?
Incorporate Honor Codes
Explain the Value of Outsourced Work
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Nursing Degree Example
Of all women with court orders for child support payments in 2001, 40% received full payment, 28% received partial payments, and 32% received nothing (United Kingdom Bureau of the Census, 2003). Support is undoubtedly highest at the time of birth and drops off sharply as relations frequently deteriorate between the child's parents. .......In the Wales study, which began in the mid-1960s, 46% of the unmarried fathers were providing support to their children a year after delivery. Seventeen years later, just 11% of the never-married and 23% of the formerly married men were helping to support their children (Furstenberg et al., 2001).
Original Source
Teenaged pregnancy and childbearing. Furstenberg, Frank F.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Chase-Lansdale, LindsayAmerican Psychologist. Vol 44(2), Feb 1989, 313-320.
United States changed to United Kingdom
Boston changed to WalesYear changed from 1989
to 2001
Third year research essay bought from an Essay Mill web site
4. Solve The Supply Issue
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Glorification of Cheating by the Press
Government Pressures
‘Accidental’ Suppliers
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RULES OF THE UNIX AND LINUX FORUMS at Unix.com
(1) No flames, shouting (all caps), sarcasm, bullying, profanity or arrogant posts.
(2) No negative comments about others or impolite remarks. Be patient.
(3) Refrain from idle chatter that does not contribute to the knowledge base. This does not apply to the forums in The Unix Lounge which are for off-topic discussions.
(4) Do not 'bump up' questions if they are not answered promptly. No duplicate or cross-posting and do not report a post or send a private message where your goal is to get an answer more quickly.
(5) Search the forums database with your keywords before asking.
(6) Do not post classroom or homework problems.(7) No job postings from headhunters or recruiters except in The Unix Forums Job Board. (8) No BSD vs. Linux vs. Windows or similar threads.
(9) Edit your posts if you see spelling or grammar errors (don't write in cyberchat or cyberpunk style). English only.
(10) Don't post your email address and ask for an email reply. Don't send a private message with a technical question. The forums are for the benefit of all, so all Q&A should take place in the forums.
(11) Post questions with descriptive subjects. For example, do not post questions with subjects like "Help Me!", "Urgent!!" or "Doubt". Post subjects like "Execution Problems with Cron" or "Help with Backup Shell Script".
(12) These are not hacker boards so hacker related posts will be promptly deleted or moderated.
(13) The forum administrators reserve the right to prune, move or edit posts that do not adhere to the rules or are technically inaccurate.
(14) The forum administrators reserve the right to remove users or change their posting status to read only without notice if any rules are not followed.
Threads that contain homework
requests are closed down
5. Work on Technical Solutions
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Active Monitoring of Known Sites
Make Assignment Specifications Traceable
Develop Sylometric Solutions
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Stylometrics“If an elderly and distinguished
professor says that a technology isn’t possible, they’re almost certainly
wrong.”
PC Pro
Question
Why Won’t This Stop?
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It is too profitable
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ReferencesLinks to more information on Contract Cheating can be found through the entry on Wikipedia:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_cheating
This includes links to the HEA workshop in held in March 2008 at BCU and the ASCE workshop held at Oxford Brookes in June 2009.
School of CTN, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
