Detecting contract cheating in essay and report submissions: Process, patterns, clues and conversations

International Journal for Educational Integrity

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Rogerson, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment design; Contract cheating; Detection; Plagiarism; Student conversations; Turnitin

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048309296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18332595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40979-017-0021-6     Document Type: Article

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