Listening to Ghosts: A Qualitative Study of Narratives from Contract Cheating Writers from the 1930s Onwards

Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Stoesz, Brenda M.; Seeland, Josh

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-12680-2_18

Cited by 5 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Research on the motivations of students engaging in plagiarism and academic misconduct is not new (see e.g., Bennett, 2005;Parnther, 2022). Indeed, Eaton, Stoesz, and Seeland (2022) have traced the industry of commercial contract cheating back to the 1930s. However, the availability of tools like ChatGPT makes the means of producing essays widely accessible and lowers the costs of time, money, and effort involved.…”

Section: The Active Role Of Students In Aiedmentioning

confidence: 99%

RE-EXAMINING THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF THE GDPR AND ChatGPT

BAI,

ZAWACKI-RICHTER,

MUSKENS

2024

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Artificial intelligence in education (AIEd) is a fast-growing field of research. In previous work, we described efforts to explore the possible futures of AIEd by identifying key variables and their future prospects. This paper re-examines our discussions on the governance of data and the role of students and teachers by considering the implications of 1) a recent case related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and 2) the release of ChatGPT, a generative AI model capable to producing ‘human-like’ text. These events raise questions for the future of AIEd and the underlying function of assessment, and highlight the importance of active student participation in the integration of AI in education.

show abstract

Section: The Active Role Of Students In Aiedmentioning

confidence: 99%

RE-EXAMINING THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF THE GDPR AND ChatGPT

BAI,

ZAWACKI-RICHTER,

MUSKENS

2024

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Las estimaciones sobre el alcance del fraude académico a través de contratos comerciales varían, pero todos los indicadores de las encuestas estudiantiles realizadas hasta la fecha indican que el desafío ha ido aumentando en las últimas décadas, con sugerencias de que uno de cada siete estudiantes en todo el mundo puede haber utilizado los servicios de portales de compra-venta de trabajos académicos (Newton, 2018). Pero no se trata de algo nuevo, se tiene constancia de estas prácticas deshonestas desde al menos la década de 1930 (Eaton et al, 2022).…”

Section: │3unclassified

An International Comparison of Discipline Integration of the Commercial Contract Cheating Industry

Lancaster,

Salasevicius

2023

RELIEVE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Commercial contract cheating, the act of requesting a third party to complete an assignment for payment, is a growing industry and poses a problem that academic institutions are trying to tackle internationally. The reach of the industry in nine fields of education and across four locations – Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States – are analysed through an automated data-gathering process on a total of 4032 Google searches and with the help of a machine learning model trained to identify which results are essay mills. 49% of all results are found to be essay mills, 3247 of which results are found to be paid advertisements despite this being against Google’s advertising policies. The fields of Arts and Humanities and Education are found to be at the highest risk of further exploitation by the industry. The paper concludes by recommending that the educational community continues to monitor the reach of the contract cheating industry and that it considers solutions to further promote academic integrity.

show abstract

Contract Cheating: Practical Considerations

Lancaster

2023

Handbook of Academic Integrity

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Listening to Ghosts: A Qualitative Study of Narratives from Contract Cheating Writers from the 1930s Onwards

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

RE-EXAMINING THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF THE GDPR AND ChatGPT

RE-EXAMINING THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF THE GDPR AND ChatGPT

An International Comparison of Discipline Integration of the Commercial Contract Cheating Industry

Contract Cheating: Practical Considerations

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About