Kiata Rundle

TL;DR: This study supports the use of criminological theories relating to rational choice, self-control and opportunity to explain why students do not engage in contract cheating and may inform academic policies and assessment design that may reduce contract cheating.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to an emerging body of research on the role of assessment design in the prevention and detection of contract cheating, drawing on the largest contract cheating dataset.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an incentivized truth-telling method and surveyed 4098 students from six universities and six independent higher education providers in Australia and found that 2.46 times more students admitted to commercial contract cheating, via submitting ghost-written assessments, when truthtelling was incentivized (via a Bayesian Truth Serum methodology) rather than when normal self-report survey instructions were used.

TL;DR: This paper found that self-control and perceived behavioral control additively contributed to the prediction of plagiarism and the path-analytic model achieved its best fit when direct paths from perceived norms to plagiarism behavior were specified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored students' and educators' experiences of contract cheating in Australian higher education through a nationally funded research project on contract cheating, and found that the majority of the cheating was committed by students.