You don’t always get what you pay for: User experiences of engaging with contract cheating sites

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 1148-1162

  Sutherland Smith, Wendy ^a   Dullaghan, Kevin ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

assessment; contract cheating; persuasiveness; purchasing assignments; student awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85062782978     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2019.1576028     Document Type: Article

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