Addressing cheating in e-assessment using student authentication and authorship checking systems: Teachers' perspectives

International Journal for Educational Integrity

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Mellar, Harvey ^a   Peytcheva Forsyth, Roumiana ^b   Kocdar, Serpil ^c   Karadeniz, Abdulkadir ^c   Yovkova, Blagovesna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Authorship checking; E assessment; Student authentication; Teachers' perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058781735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18332595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40979-018-0025-x     Document Type: Article

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