I will pay someone to do my assignment: an analysis of market demand for contract cheating services on twitter

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 541-553

  Amigud, Alexander ^a   Lancaster, Thomas ^b  

^a Religion Culture   (Canada)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic integrity; Contract cheating; examination impersonation; outsourcing; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073939804     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2019.1670780     Document Type: Article

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