The rise of contract cheating during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study through the eyes of academics in Kuwait

Abstract Contract cheating has gone rampant in higher education recently. When institutions switched to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of contract cheating students climbed to unprecedented levels. Essay mills saw the lack of face-to-face interaction and proctoring on c...

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Autor principal:	Inan Deniz Erguvan
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Publicado:	SpringerOpen 2021
Materias:	Contract cheating Academic integrity Faculty perspectives Online learning COVID-19 pandemic Language and Literature P
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:340c48654a624ecb98c6fa70ac39a0102021-12-05T12:16:37ZThe rise of contract cheating during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study through the eyes of academics in Kuwait10.1186/s40468-021-00149-y2229-0443https://doaj.org/article/340c48654a624ecb98c6fa70ac39a0102021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40468-021-00149-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2229-0443Abstract Contract cheating has gone rampant in higher education recently. When institutions switched to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of contract cheating students climbed to unprecedented levels. Essay mills saw the lack of face-to-face interaction and proctoring on campus as an opportunity and used aggressive marketing methods to attract students. This study asked the opinions of 20 faculty members working in the English departments of private higher education institutions in Kuwait regarding contract cheating through interviews. The data was analyzed with MAXQDA 2020. The findings show that all faculty members can recognize contract cheating easily. Most of them see contract cheating as a serious problem in the higher education system, a threat to the reliability of language assessment, triggered by laziness, the social pressure to graduate with a high GPA, and exacerbated by the cheating opportunities in online education. Academics have developed certain individual strategies in their courses to curb the number of contract cheating students; however, institutional measures differ, and in some, there are no measures or sanctions on contract cheating students.Inan Deniz ErguvanSpringerOpenarticleContract cheatingAcademic integrityFaculty perspectivesOnline learningCOVID-19 pandemicLanguage and LiteraturePENLanguage Testing in Asia, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-21 (2021)
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description	Abstract Contract cheating has gone rampant in higher education recently. When institutions switched to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of contract cheating students climbed to unprecedented levels. Essay mills saw the lack of face-to-face interaction and proctoring on campus as an opportunity and used aggressive marketing methods to attract students. This study asked the opinions of 20 faculty members working in the English departments of private higher education institutions in Kuwait regarding contract cheating through interviews. The data was analyzed with MAXQDA 2020. The findings show that all faculty members can recognize contract cheating easily. Most of them see contract cheating as a serious problem in the higher education system, a threat to the reliability of language assessment, triggered by laziness, the social pressure to graduate with a high GPA, and exacerbated by the cheating opportunities in online education. Academics have developed certain individual strategies in their courses to curb the number of contract cheating students; however, institutional measures differ, and in some, there are no measures or sanctions on contract cheating students.
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The rise of contract cheating during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study through the eyes of academics in Kuwait

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