Establishing a systematic six-stage process for detecting contract cheating

2007 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, ICPCA'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 342-347

  Clarke, Robert ^a   Lancaster, Thomas ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contract cheating; Educational issues; Educational processes; Pervasive computing; Plagiarism

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

CONTRACT CHEATING; EDUCATIONAL ISSUES; EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES; PLAGIARISM;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 38649105828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPCA.2007.4365466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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