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An Exploration of Contract Cheating and Academic Misconduct Within
Health Education
Dr. Thomas Lancaster and Robert ClarkePedagogies, Practitioners and Identities in Education Conference
Birmingham City UniversityMonday, 13 July 2015
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Our Experience with Plagiarism, Contract Cheating and Essay Mills
Dr. Thomas Lancaster
Senior Lecturer in Computing at Birmingham City UniversitySenior Fellow of the Higher Education AcademyPhD in Plagiarism (Prevention & Detection)Teaches Employability and Professional Practice
Robert Clarke
Educational Consultant at SCLVisiting Lecturer/Former Principal Lecturer30 Years Experience Teaching At BCUHas Collected Over 25,000 Contract Cheating Attempts (Buying Original Assignments) Made By Students Worldwide
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Contract Cheating Investigation Results
“If you work this out it probably comes out to about one million pounds of work being offered around, which we’ve just detected.”
BBC Radio KentFirst broadcast 8 September 2014http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026jn26
Robert Clarke
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Research Presentation Objectives
Why technology-aided cheating in health education and nursing education is of concernThe availability of essay mills and contract cheating services for healthExamples of health assessments which students have cheated on that have been found during our researchWhat a nursing essay bought through an essay mill looks likePointers to recognise essays completed by a third party
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Why Are We Concerned About Health And Nursing Education?
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Why Not Just Buy Your Nursing Essay?
Example of an essay mill targeted at UK nursing students
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“Nursing Students Implicated In Coursework For Cash Claims”
“Undergraduates may be able to buy their way into the profession.”Contract cheating sites “offer custom-written essays” and “can pass undetected by university anti-plagiarism software that searches for existing model essays on the internet.”Nursing Times contacted sites wanting an essay for a second year degree on palliative care, receiving three quotes between £83 and £179.“Robert Clarke, an IT lecturer at the university has been researching contract cheating in his own and other subjects,and found evidence that it occurs in nursing.”
Nursing Times – 7 April 2008http://www.nursingtimes.net/whats-new-in-nursing/nursing-students-implicated-in-coursework-for-cash-claims/1079672.article
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Concerns Raised About Nursing Times Article
“If student nurses are happy to cheat in essays, what about when they become newly qualified nurses? How can they be trusted to act in a professional manner?
Will they also cheat in, say the care they provide; what about drug charts and drug errors; the notes they take, and really anything that they do that could be cheated?”
Lee Potiphar PhD RNClinical Research ManagerOxford Radcliffe Hospitals
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Outsourcing To The Wider Medical Profession
“The problem is getting worse because of the rising popularity of online courses, with those students attempting to outsource not just essays but their online tests too.Clarke says his team has even found posts from courses training nurses, pharmacists, and MRI scanner technicians.‘Would you feel safe being looked after by these people?’ he says.‘Cheating is not a victim-less crime. Every students who hands in work that is not their own devalues the degree,’ Clarke continues. ‘A student who inflates their grade may get an interview ahead of one who does not’.”
SCOOPonline – July 11 2014
http://centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk/scooponline/?p=3780
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Health Education Incriminated In “The Great Australian Cheating Scandal Of 2015”
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Concerns Raised About The Ethics Of Australian Medical Students
Sydney Morning Herald – June 6, 2015
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/cheating-scandal-sydney-university-to-review-medical-study-unit-20150606-ghi5d2.html
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Need To Ensure “Fitness For Practice”
Sydney Morning Herald – April 20, 2015
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/corruption-rife-in-international-student-sector-of-leading-australian-universities-abcs-four-corners-reports-20150420-1mp64t.html
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Four Corners Documentary (Australian TV)
Four Corners – 21 April 2015http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/04/20/4217741.htm
“They might find themselves being the only registered nurse on duty and that is something that frightens me.”
Barbara BealeSenior Academic (Retired)School of Nursing and MidwiferyUniversity of Western Sydney
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Pre-Written Health Essays Can Sometimes Be Detected
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Posting With Ready-Made Solution(From Transtutors – “Online Tutorial” Site)
2014 3875 NRS ASSESSMENT ITEM 2: INDIVIDUAL ESSAYCurrent Issues in Nursing & Recommendations for Professional Development for NursesWeighting: 70%Total marks: 100Due Date: 16th May at 5pmTask DescriptionYou are required to write a 2000 word essay on a patient readmission. This topic needs addressing in order to improve nursing standards/ practise. You are required to develop recommendations and strategies for future professional development for nurses.
Download solution for
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Pre-Written Essay For A Nursing Degree
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 SourceTeenaged pregnancy and childbearing. Furstenberg, Frank F.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Chase-Lansdale, LindsayAmerican Psychologist. Vol 44(2), Feb 1989, 313-320.
Attempted DisguiseUnited States changed to
United KingdomBoston changed to Wales
Year changed from 1989 to 2001
Third year research essay purchased from an essay bank and submitted
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Contract Cheating In Health Courses Is Harder To Detect
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Contract Cheating
Students pay or involve a third party – getting them to complete original work for the studentThe intention is usually for the student to gain academic qualifications (and subsequent employment) that they do not deserveOur work as contract cheating detectives on agency sites has identified attempts by students to cheat that have implications for the way health assessments are set
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Scale Of Cheating – Essay Bay Study
R European Langs, Lit & related
P Mass Comms and Documentation
W Creative Arts & Design
F Physical Sciences
K Architecture,Build & Plan
H Engineering
M Law
G Mathematical & Comp Sci
Q Linguistics, Classics & related
C Biological Sciences
X Education
B Subjects allied to Medicine
V Hist & Philosophical studies
L Social Studies
N Business & Admin studies
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2012), Dealing with Contract Cheating: A Question of Attribution, 1 st HEA STEM Conference April 2012, London, United Kingdom
Sample of 627 “all subject” cases collected on EssayBay over 5 months in 2010, and manually classified by UCAS Subject Category.
EssayBay no longer operational, but plenty of other sites exist to fill the gap.
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Principles and Philosophy of Palliative CareModels of death and dying and grief and loss enhance our understanding of and guide the delivery of palliative care practice.Critically analyse this statement with reference to the provision of palliative care to individuals with a life limiting illness and their families.
Guideline:In addressing this assignment, you are expected to incorporate the key themes from the theoretical input of the Principles and Philosophy of Palliative care module.This will involve a critical analysis of the relevant literature, your clinical practice and the wider palliative care practice arena.
Traced to MSc course in DublinWork completed for 128 Euros
(£92 GBP) in 5 days
Student posted other assignments from same course
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Final Year Undergraduate Project Rewrite
The 15,000 dissertation has been submitted and the lecturer has made comments. YOU need to take it all on board and rewrite/edit/amend the paper accordingly! and with quality !!!
This dissertation represents a critical appraisal of theory and methodology in the field of endodontology (root canal therapy). The focus of this dissertation is on the practical results of the mechanical aspects of the instrumentation for the cleaning and shaping of root canals, using synthetic blocks. Modern Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) rotary instruments allow easy negotiation the curved root canals during endodontic treatment. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine if there are any detectable differences in final preparation shape when using less than the recommended number of instruments in order to achieve the glide path in root canal instrumentation
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Application For Nursing Course
Appliaction For enrollemnt into UNII Need help with just 1 page: What main reason for wanting to undertake this course? Enrolled NurseInclude your career plan or goals and any other factors that are relevant to your appliance:
Posted by “gearb34” – but no indication of country of origin
Made several similar postings – but no improvement in spelling
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Dignity and Privacy In Nursing Essay
BBC South East Today – 9 September 2014
1500 word nursing essay commissioned from a “UK” essay mill by student Cecily Snowball and journalist Piers Hopkirk from BBC South East Today Payment made of £296
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All Publicity Is Good Publicity?
http://www.essayyard.co.uk/featured-on-bbc.php
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Look For Signs Of Cheating In Essays
Suggestions from a survey of international academic ghostwriters with European degrees, expanded based upon our experience as contract cheating detectives:
Look for use of ideas and quotes from paper abstracts (the only sections available free to ghostwriters)Challenge perfect technical formatting and word useExamine assignment submissions with very low Turnitin scoresLook for personal experiences that do not match the student profileSivasubramaniam, S. and Ramachandran, S. (2015). A New Breed of Ghost-Writers: Exploring the Threat to the Academic Community via Internationalisation and social media, Plagiarism Across Europe And Beyond International Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 10-12 June 2015.
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Confessions From A Productive Essay Ghostwriter
“The secret to the gig is to amuse yourself. I have to, really, as most paper topics are deadly boring.”
“Whenever papers needed to refer to a client’s own life experiences, I’d give the student various sexual hang-ups.”
http://thesmartset.com/article10100801
The Term Paper Artistby Nick MamatasPublished on The Smart Set
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Expanded Research Seminar Available
Our wider work on contract cheating, plagiarism and essay mill use in nursing education and medical education is available to be presented as:One hour research seminarTeaching and learning keynote presentationFull day or half day training workshop
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References For Our Contract Cheating WorkLancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2015). The Implications of Plagiarism and Contract Cheating for the Assessment of Database Modules. 13th International Workshop
on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases (TLAD 2015), Birmingham, UK.Hersey, C. and Lancaster, T. (2015). The Online Industry of Paper Mills, Contract Cheating Services, and Auction Sites, International Education Conference,
London, June 2015.Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2015), Contract Cheating – The Outsourcing Of Assessed Student Work, in Handbook of Academic Integrity, Bretag, T. (editor):
SpringerReference.Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2014), An Observational Analysis Of The Range And Extent Of Contract Cheating From Online Courses Found On Agency Websites;
8th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2014), Birmingham City University, UK, July 2014.Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2014), An Initial Analysis Of The Contextual Information Available Within Auction Posts On Contract Cheating Agency Websites, 28th
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, University of Victoria, May 2014Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2014), Using Turnitin As A Tool For Attribution In Cases Of Contract Cheating; 3rd Annual Higher Education Academy Conference in
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, April 2014.Clarke, R. and Lancaster, T. (2013). Commercial Aspects Of Contract Cheating; 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
Education, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, July 2013.Lancaster, T and Clarke, R (2012). Dealing With Contract Cheating: A Question Of Attribution; 1st Annual Higher Education Academy Conference in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Imperial College, London, April 2012.Lancaster, T and Clarke, R (2010). Staff-Led Individualised Assessment – A Case Study; 11th Annual Higher Education Academy Conference in Information and
Computer Sciences, Durham University, August 2010.Lancaster, T and Clarke, R (2008). How to Succeed at Cheating Without Really Trying: Five Top Tips for Successful Cheating; 9th Annual Higher Education Academy
Conference in Information and Computer Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, August 2008.Clarke, R, and Lancaster, T (2007). Establishing a Systematic Six-Stage Process for Detecting Contract Cheating; The Second International Conference on Pervasive
Computing and Applications, Birmingham City University, July 2007. Lancaster, T and Clarke, R (2007). Assessing Contract Cheating Through Auction Sites – A Computing Perspective; 8th Annual Higher Education Academy
Conference in Information and Computer Sciences, University of Southampton, August 2007.Lancaster, T and Clarke, R (2007) The Phenomena of Contract Cheating, in Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and solutions, Roberts, T. S. (editor),
Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: Idea Group Inc.Clarke, R and Lancaster, T (2006). Eliminating The Successor To Plagiarism? Identifying The Usage Of Contract Cheating Sites; 2nd Plagiarism: Prevention, Practice
and Policy Conference 2006 - Newcastle, UK, June 2006.
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Further Information
General Overview On Contract Cheating:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_cheating
Examining The Ease Of Buying Nursing Essays Online Through Essay Mills And Contract Cheating Siteshttps://youtu.be/fbgOU2-A95o
Contract Cheating Special Interest Group (supported by the Higher Education Academy):https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=CONTRACTCHEATING
Slides Available At:http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasLancaster
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Our Contact Details
Thomas LancasterEmail: [email protected]: http://thomaslancaster.co.ukLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/thomaslancaster Twitter: @DrLancaster
Robert ClarkeEmail: [email protected]: https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robert-clarke/16/12a/967
