Contract cheating has the potential to be a particular problem for online courses. This presentation, from the CISIS 2014 research conference held at Birmingham City University, looks at how students on online courses can pay others to complete assessed work for them. It is based on an analysis of the use of the Transtutors agency site, where students can ask homework and assessment questions and have solutions written for them for a fee. The presentation concludes by making recommendations about what academics can do about cheating and plagiarism and how this form of academic misconduct can be detected.
Conducting Academic Integrity Research in the Generative AI WorldThomas Lancaster
Here's how ChatGPT and other generative AI systems can be used to develop and enhance academic research, with or without acknowledgement. The examples given largely relate to research within the academic integrity field, but the methods are applicable to many other fields. The presentation was given as part of the Bournemouth University series of academic integrity webinars.
Reimagining Academic Integrity in a Generative AI World - Keynote Presentatio...Thomas Lancaster
How do we work with AI and how do we engage students in its use? This keynote presentation, delivered at the first Asia-Middle East-Africa Conference on Academic and Research Integrity (ACARI) in Dubai in December 2023 includes examples of how AI can be used to generate fake student quotes and to analyse research data - and asks what should we be teaching students to prepare them for the road ahead?
The Generative Artificial Intelligence Revolution and the Future of Academic ...Thomas Lancaster
How will teaching, learning and assessment look in a future world where the use of artificial intelligence is the norm, and where does academic integrity come in to the discussion? These slides, delivered as a keynote presentation, consider the issues and share plenty of examples.
The Benefits of Academic Integrity Networks - Exploring the London and South ...Thomas Lancaster
These slides introduce the London and South East
Academic Integrity Network. They also provide some suggestions and considerations for people wanting to set up their own group. For more information, visit https://academicintegrity.uk/Iseain.
Can Machine Generated Text Be Detected? European Conference on Ethics and Int...Thomas Lancaster
Is it a good idea to rely on detection systems to find artificial intelligence generated student work? These slides, presented at the European Network for Academic Integrity Annual Conference 2023, discuss this challenge. The recommendation is that detection services for generative AI need to be used with caution. They can give wrong and misleading results. Instead, educators should consider how they teach and assess in the future.
ChatGPT and Academic Integrity - Thoughts For Professional, Statutory and Reg...Thomas Lancaster
How should the Professional, Regulatory and Statutory Bodies (PRSBs) who support and accredit university programmes react to ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence? This webinar, delivered for the Chartered Institute of Building and the Professional Associations Research Network, considers the issues that PSRBs should be thinking about when advising their members and provides examples of how students looking to use ChatGPT to learn could accidentally end up breaching academic integrity.
Protecting Academic Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Keynote...Thomas Lancaster
How should universities think about assessment and academic integrity in light of generative artificial intelligence. These slides from a keynote presentation continue a theme of recent ideas I've explored and also consider how tools like ChatGPT can enable students to succeed.
Conducting Academic Integrity Research in the Generative AI WorldThomas Lancaster
Here's how ChatGPT and other generative AI systems can be used to develop and enhance academic research, with or without acknowledgement. The examples given largely relate to research within the academic integrity field, but the methods are applicable to many other fields. The presentation was given as part of the Bournemouth University series of academic integrity webinars.
Reimagining Academic Integrity in a Generative AI World - Keynote Presentatio...Thomas Lancaster
How do we work with AI and how do we engage students in its use? This keynote presentation, delivered at the first Asia-Middle East-Africa Conference on Academic and Research Integrity (ACARI) in Dubai in December 2023 includes examples of how AI can be used to generate fake student quotes and to analyse research data - and asks what should we be teaching students to prepare them for the road ahead?
The Generative Artificial Intelligence Revolution and the Future of Academic ...Thomas Lancaster
How will teaching, learning and assessment look in a future world where the use of artificial intelligence is the norm, and where does academic integrity come in to the discussion? These slides, delivered as a keynote presentation, consider the issues and share plenty of examples.
The Benefits of Academic Integrity Networks - Exploring the London and South ...Thomas Lancaster
These slides introduce the London and South East
Academic Integrity Network. They also provide some suggestions and considerations for people wanting to set up their own group. For more information, visit https://academicintegrity.uk/Iseain.
Can Machine Generated Text Be Detected? European Conference on Ethics and Int...Thomas Lancaster
Is it a good idea to rely on detection systems to find artificial intelligence generated student work? These slides, presented at the European Network for Academic Integrity Annual Conference 2023, discuss this challenge. The recommendation is that detection services for generative AI need to be used with caution. They can give wrong and misleading results. Instead, educators should consider how they teach and assess in the future.
ChatGPT and Academic Integrity - Thoughts For Professional, Statutory and Reg...Thomas Lancaster
How should the Professional, Regulatory and Statutory Bodies (PRSBs) who support and accredit university programmes react to ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence? This webinar, delivered for the Chartered Institute of Building and the Professional Associations Research Network, considers the issues that PSRBs should be thinking about when advising their members and provides examples of how students looking to use ChatGPT to learn could accidentally end up breaching academic integrity.
Protecting Academic Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Keynote...Thomas Lancaster
How should universities think about assessment and academic integrity in light of generative artificial intelligence. These slides from a keynote presentation continue a theme of recent ideas I've explored and also consider how tools like ChatGPT can enable students to succeed.
Unlocking Academic Integrity Research Using Simulations, AI Assistance and Ch...Thomas Lancaster
Can research papers be faked using ChatGPT? These slides were presented at the Welsh Integrity and Assessment Network Symposium Event in June 2023 and considered examples of research using ChatGPT in ways that could be considered both ethical and unethical. The session included a live demo showing how ChatGPT can be used to construct a research paper. Screenshots of the live demo are included at the end of the slide set.
Artificial Intelligence – From Education to the Workplace - Keynote presentat...Thomas Lancaster
How is artificial intelligence changing industry, recruitment, and professional employment? This presentation, delivered as a keynote address, explores the ways which education and assessment are adapting to ensure that academic integrity is maintained, then considers how employment practices may also need to adapt. Suggestions are given as to how AI can be incorporated into recruitment processes.
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity - LIR HEAnet User G...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation for academic librarians considering the impact of ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence was presented at the “We Need To Talk About AI” event on 7 June 2023. They consider the strengths of limitations of generative AI and the discussions that librarians should be having with students and other educational stakeholders.
Can We Fake Academic Integrity? Keynote presentation for Canadian Symposium o...Thomas Lancaster
What does it mean for student assessment to be real or fake in a ChatGPT world? This keynote presentation considers how work in the academic integrity field can be faked and the adaptations to educational processes that could be considered.
Promoting Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI and Contract Cheatin...Thomas Lancaster
These slides look at artificial intelligence, contract cheating and academic integrity, and were delivered to staff at Adelphi University as part of Academic Integrity Awareness week. They include examples showing when generative AI gets things wrong and also suggests ways in which both students and faculty can work with systems like #ChatGPT.
Assessing with Integrity for the AI Generation - Plenary for Nexus Academic I...Thomas Lancaster
With access to generative artificial intelligence and ChatGPT being widely available for students, universities have to consider how students will be supported to operate with academic integrity and work successfully with AI tools. This plenary session, delivered for University of Wales Trinity Saint David, considers academic integrity within this wider context and raises questions and discussions points to be considered with all stakeholders, including students.
A World Without Contract Cheating - Keynote Presentation for University of Br...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation considers the problem of contract cheating and how this remains a threat to academic integrity, even after students have been able to use ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence. The slides were delivered as the keynote presentation for the University of Bradford’s Contract Cheating Day.
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Academic Integrity - UC Sen Diego Ac...Thomas Lancaster
How do should educators respond to the continual developments in generative AI and ChatGPT in education? What does this mean for assessment and future strategy? This presentation considers the impact that artificial intelligence stands to make on education and the type of assessments that can be produced. It also gives some ideas as to how to best address this.
Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom: Friend or Foe? DigiED: Horizons 202...Thomas Lancaster
How do we support students to understand artificial intelligence in the classroom? Is new technology like ChatGPT and Google Bard an educational friend or a foe? These slides, delivered as a keynote presentation at DigiED Horizons 2023, explore some of the opportunities that artificial intelligence provides for universities and also the risks if ethical use of this technology is not considered.
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Contract Cheating – Solutions for Prevention and Identification - Academic In...Thomas Lancaster
This introduction to contract cheating considers why this remains a challenge in 2022. It looks at opportunities to develop educational processes to reduce the risks posed by contract cheating and to encourage students to engage with learning opportunities.
Engaging With Academic Integrity - Webinar for University of Bath - 6 Decembe...Thomas Lancaster
This webinar, presented for staff at the University of Bath, considers what academic integrity means and what the current challenges in the field are. The challenges posed by the growth of artificial intelligence, including through the ChatGPT system, are also explored.
Positive Interventions in the Age of Contract Cheating - Manitoba Academic In...Thomas Lancaster
Contract cheating remains a threat to education and academic integrity, but there are positive steps we can take to address this. These slides, presented as a webinar workshop for the Manitoba Academic Integrity Network, explore contract cheating, how the market has developed, assessment design opportunities, and ways to work with students as partners and collaborators to address contract cheating.
Is Resistance Useless? Practical Academic Integrity Considerations in the Age...Thomas Lancaster
Do we resist developments in technology in education or do we embrace them? This can be a real issue for the integrity of tests and other forms of assessment. This keynote presentation, delivered at the 2020 ATP Security Summit, considers the issues.
Putting Students First in the Academic Integrity Discussion - Keynote Present...Thomas Lancaster
The whole educational community should ensure that academic integrity values are at the heart of the discussion. This community includes students. This keynote presentation, delivered for the RMIT Learning and Teaching Festival 2022, asked "what's possible", considering future challenges of academic integrity, how staff can ensure that students are supported throughout their learning journey and examples of the valuable work that students can lead on to support the wider sector. These slides are slightly edited from the original presentation to remove some RMIT specific strategic examples but the general concepts and ideas should be valuable everywhere.
Adapting To Artificial Intelligence – The Future Of Academic Integrity - Euro...Thomas Lancaster
Artificial intelligence based solutions are developing fast and offer threats to the integrity of educational processes and assessments. Students can generate written work, art and even computer software. These slides, presented in webinar form to the European Network for Academic Integrity, showcase some of the options available to students and ask how we should integrate the use of such tools into the learning and assessment process.
Student Assessment - Building Opportunities For Integrity And Engagement - Ke...Thomas Lancaster
How do we encourage students to act with academic integrity and to engage with classroom teaching and assessment? This keynote presentation for the Bioscience Education Summit 2022 considers threats to academic integrity and considerations for the design of robust assessments.
Developing An Academic Integrity Research Module For Undergraduate Students -...Thomas Lancaster
The Academic Integrity in STEMM module at Imperial College London has run twice (in Autumn 2020 and Autumn 2021), allowing students to operate across disciplines to develop a personal understanding of academic integrity and to conduct research. This presentation, from the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2022, overviews how the module has worked for the first two years, including strengths and weaknesses. It also showcases the excellent research work completed by student partners.
Improving Academic Integrity Policies at UK Universities - Advance HE Teachin...Thomas Lancaster
How do we improve academic integrity policies across the United Kingdom? This presentation, from the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2022, was developed with Imperial College London StudentShapers' student partner, Chloe Lau. It shares data collected from 129 UK universities and suggests that there is work to be done to ensure that policies are written in a student-focused manner and which present academic integrity as being more than just as absence of plagiarism and cheating.
Unauthorised Question and Answer Sharing.- Implications for Higher Education ...Thomas Lancaster
How should educational providers address student use of question and answer sites, with particular reference to university policies and processes? This presentation, developed and delivered by members of the Quality Assurance Agency advisory group for academic integrity, considers the issues surrounding this area, which relates closely to contract cheating sites and file sharing sites. The legal issues surrounding the operation of these type of sites are also considered.
Unlocking Academic Integrity Research Using Simulations, AI Assistance and Ch...Thomas Lancaster
Can research papers be faked using ChatGPT? These slides were presented at the Welsh Integrity and Assessment Network Symposium Event in June 2023 and considered examples of research using ChatGPT in ways that could be considered both ethical and unethical. The session included a live demo showing how ChatGPT can be used to construct a research paper. Screenshots of the live demo are included at the end of the slide set.
Artificial Intelligence – From Education to the Workplace - Keynote presentat...Thomas Lancaster
How is artificial intelligence changing industry, recruitment, and professional employment? This presentation, delivered as a keynote address, explores the ways which education and assessment are adapting to ensure that academic integrity is maintained, then considers how employment practices may also need to adapt. Suggestions are given as to how AI can be incorporated into recruitment processes.
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity - LIR HEAnet User G...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation for academic librarians considering the impact of ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence was presented at the “We Need To Talk About AI” event on 7 June 2023. They consider the strengths of limitations of generative AI and the discussions that librarians should be having with students and other educational stakeholders.
Can We Fake Academic Integrity? Keynote presentation for Canadian Symposium o...Thomas Lancaster
What does it mean for student assessment to be real or fake in a ChatGPT world? This keynote presentation considers how work in the academic integrity field can be faked and the adaptations to educational processes that could be considered.
Promoting Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI and Contract Cheatin...Thomas Lancaster
These slides look at artificial intelligence, contract cheating and academic integrity, and were delivered to staff at Adelphi University as part of Academic Integrity Awareness week. They include examples showing when generative AI gets things wrong and also suggests ways in which both students and faculty can work with systems like #ChatGPT.
Assessing with Integrity for the AI Generation - Plenary for Nexus Academic I...Thomas Lancaster
With access to generative artificial intelligence and ChatGPT being widely available for students, universities have to consider how students will be supported to operate with academic integrity and work successfully with AI tools. This plenary session, delivered for University of Wales Trinity Saint David, considers academic integrity within this wider context and raises questions and discussions points to be considered with all stakeholders, including students.
A World Without Contract Cheating - Keynote Presentation for University of Br...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation considers the problem of contract cheating and how this remains a threat to academic integrity, even after students have been able to use ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence. The slides were delivered as the keynote presentation for the University of Bradford’s Contract Cheating Day.
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Academic Integrity - UC Sen Diego Ac...Thomas Lancaster
How do should educators respond to the continual developments in generative AI and ChatGPT in education? What does this mean for assessment and future strategy? This presentation considers the impact that artificial intelligence stands to make on education and the type of assessments that can be produced. It also gives some ideas as to how to best address this.
Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom: Friend or Foe? DigiED: Horizons 202...Thomas Lancaster
How do we support students to understand artificial intelligence in the classroom? Is new technology like ChatGPT and Google Bard an educational friend or a foe? These slides, delivered as a keynote presentation at DigiED Horizons 2023, explore some of the opportunities that artificial intelligence provides for universities and also the risks if ethical use of this technology is not considered.
Student Assessment and Artificial Intelligence - Exploring What’s Possible - ...Thomas Lancaster
With the availability of generative AI technology such as ChatGPT, students may have methods available to them that will solve many current assignments. These slides, presented at the ICAI Conference 2023, explore the type of work that technically able students can produce and considers how to support students to work with AI rather than against it.
Contract Cheating – Solutions for Prevention and Identification - Academic In...Thomas Lancaster
This introduction to contract cheating considers why this remains a challenge in 2022. It looks at opportunities to develop educational processes to reduce the risks posed by contract cheating and to encourage students to engage with learning opportunities.
Engaging With Academic Integrity - Webinar for University of Bath - 6 Decembe...Thomas Lancaster
This webinar, presented for staff at the University of Bath, considers what academic integrity means and what the current challenges in the field are. The challenges posed by the growth of artificial intelligence, including through the ChatGPT system, are also explored.
Positive Interventions in the Age of Contract Cheating - Manitoba Academic In...Thomas Lancaster
Contract cheating remains a threat to education and academic integrity, but there are positive steps we can take to address this. These slides, presented as a webinar workshop for the Manitoba Academic Integrity Network, explore contract cheating, how the market has developed, assessment design opportunities, and ways to work with students as partners and collaborators to address contract cheating.
Is Resistance Useless? Practical Academic Integrity Considerations in the Age...Thomas Lancaster
Do we resist developments in technology in education or do we embrace them? This can be a real issue for the integrity of tests and other forms of assessment. This keynote presentation, delivered at the 2020 ATP Security Summit, considers the issues.
Putting Students First in the Academic Integrity Discussion - Keynote Present...Thomas Lancaster
The whole educational community should ensure that academic integrity values are at the heart of the discussion. This community includes students. This keynote presentation, delivered for the RMIT Learning and Teaching Festival 2022, asked "what's possible", considering future challenges of academic integrity, how staff can ensure that students are supported throughout their learning journey and examples of the valuable work that students can lead on to support the wider sector. These slides are slightly edited from the original presentation to remove some RMIT specific strategic examples but the general concepts and ideas should be valuable everywhere.
Adapting To Artificial Intelligence – The Future Of Academic Integrity - Euro...Thomas Lancaster
Artificial intelligence based solutions are developing fast and offer threats to the integrity of educational processes and assessments. Students can generate written work, art and even computer software. These slides, presented in webinar form to the European Network for Academic Integrity, showcase some of the options available to students and ask how we should integrate the use of such tools into the learning and assessment process.
Student Assessment - Building Opportunities For Integrity And Engagement - Ke...Thomas Lancaster
How do we encourage students to act with academic integrity and to engage with classroom teaching and assessment? This keynote presentation for the Bioscience Education Summit 2022 considers threats to academic integrity and considerations for the design of robust assessments.
Developing An Academic Integrity Research Module For Undergraduate Students -...Thomas Lancaster
The Academic Integrity in STEMM module at Imperial College London has run twice (in Autumn 2020 and Autumn 2021), allowing students to operate across disciplines to develop a personal understanding of academic integrity and to conduct research. This presentation, from the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2022, overviews how the module has worked for the first two years, including strengths and weaknesses. It also showcases the excellent research work completed by student partners.
Improving Academic Integrity Policies at UK Universities - Advance HE Teachin...Thomas Lancaster
How do we improve academic integrity policies across the United Kingdom? This presentation, from the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2022, was developed with Imperial College London StudentShapers' student partner, Chloe Lau. It shares data collected from 129 UK universities and suggests that there is work to be done to ensure that policies are written in a student-focused manner and which present academic integrity as being more than just as absence of plagiarism and cheating.
Unauthorised Question and Answer Sharing.- Implications for Higher Education ...Thomas Lancaster
How should educational providers address student use of question and answer sites, with particular reference to university policies and processes? This presentation, developed and delivered by members of the Quality Assurance Agency advisory group for academic integrity, considers the issues surrounding this area, which relates closely to contract cheating sites and file sharing sites. The legal issues surrounding the operation of these type of sites are also considered.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
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students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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Experiences Of Plagiarism
And Contract Cheating
Dr. Thomas Lancaster
Senior Lecturer in Computing
PhD “Effective And Efficient Plagiarism
Detection”
Programme Leader BSc Computer Science
Lead of Innovations in Computing Education
Group at Birmingham City University
Robert Clarke
Educational Consultant
Current Visiting Lecturer/Former Principal
Lecturer at Birmingham City University
30 Years Experience Teaching
19,000 Attempts at Contract Cheating Found
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Contract Cheating Does
Happen
Anonymous survey in May 2014 of 180 students at East Carolina
University.
15 out of 180 (8.33%) had paid someone else to do their work for them
18 out of 180 (10%) had been paid by other students to do work for them
“I don't study. All these kids in the library, it's easy. If
they want a quick extra buck or two, I’m like hey
man, write this paper for me.”
“The Secret World Of Cheaters” WNCT 9
http://www.wnct.com/story/25468950/secret-world-of-cheaters
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Contract Cheating And
Online Courses
Contract cheating is an issue for all courses, but when
students are taught face-to-face, mechanisms to
prevent them contract cheating exist
The growth of studying through online courses poses
new challenges for academics
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Data Collection
A sample of 174 assignments from Transtutors
was collected and analysed
All assignments were manually checked and were from
identifiable courses that were known to be taught
online
Assignments from courses taught online by 17
different institutions were found
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Contract Cheating Does
Represent A Problem For Online
Courses
The analysis of the sample data collected, combined
with the experiences of detectives looking for
contract cheating, suggests that contract cheating is
devaluing awards from online institutions
The growth of the uptake of MOOCs awarding
academic credit adds a further complication which
needs to be addressed
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Detection Opportunities
Need to develop automated methods to gather information
from agency websites and attribute source institutions and
students
Can use watermarking to aid in traceability of assignments
found online by contract cheating detectives
Stylometric techniques, developed to identify work not
written by the student to which it has been attributed,
show initial promise
The availability of the work produced for purchase by
multiple parties provides additional research and detection
opportunities
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“Times Higher Education” Lead Story
(10 October 2013)
“The damage contract cheating can inflict
on society is clear. Graduates emerge
from university with huge (and in some
disciplines, potentially dangerous) gaps
in their learning and knowledge.”
Academics should aim to ensure that
students understand the value of completing
their own work
Continued work to develop appropriate
assessment mechanisms for online and face-
to-face courses to ensure that students do
have the skills required by industry are
necessary
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/essay-
mills-university-course-work-to-order/3/2007934.article
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References For Our
Contract Cheating Work
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2014), An Initial Analysis Of The Contextual Information Available Within Auction Posts On Contract
Cheating Agency Websites, 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications,
University of Victoria, May 2014.
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2014), Using Turnitin As A Tool For Attribution In Cases Of Contract Cheating; 3rd Annual Higher Education
Academy Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, April 2014.
Clarke, R. and Lancaster, T. (2013). Commercial Aspects Of Contract Cheating; 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in
Computer Science Education, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, July 2013.
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2012). Dealing With Contract Cheating: A Question Of Attribution; 1st Annual Higher Education Academy
Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Imperial College, London, April 2012.
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2010). Staff-Led Individualised Assessment – A Case Study; 11th Annual Higher Education Academy
Conference in Information and Computer Sciences, Durham University, August 2010.
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2008). How to Succeed at Cheating Without Really Trying: Five Top Tips for Successful Cheating; 9th
Annual Higher Education Academy Conference in Information and Computer Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, August 2008.
Clarke, R., and Lancaster, T. (2007). Establishing a Systematic Six-Stage Process for Detecting Contract Cheating; The Second
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Birmingham City University, July 2007.
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2007). Assessing Contract Cheating Through Auction Sites – A Computing Perspective; 8th Annual Higher
Education Academy Conference in Information and Computer Sciences, University of Southampton, August 2007.
Lancaster, T. and Clarke, R. (2007) The Phenomena of Contract Cheating, in Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and
solutions, Roberts, T. S. (editor), Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: Idea Group Inc.
Clarke, R. and Lancaster, T. (2006). Eliminating The Successor To Plagiarism? Identifying The Usage Of Contract Cheating Sites; 2nd
Plagiarism: Prevention, Practice and Policy Conference 2006 - Newcastle, UK, June 2006.