Dealing with contract cheating: a question of attribution

STEM Annual Conference 2012: Proceedings - ISBN 978-1-907207-45-7

The issue of attribution identifying the institutions which students who attempt to outsource work are from poses a major difficulty for detectives monitoring online sites used for contract cheating. This form of academic misconduct occurs when students get other people to complete assessed work for them. Previous studies on contract cheating have focused on student use of Internet-based outsourcing services. The studies have demonstrated that those sites primarily provide students with work for subjects falling within the computing spectrum.