You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: User Experiences of Engaging with Contract Cheating Sites

Autor/inn/en	Sutherland-Smith, Wendy; Dullaghan, Kevin
Titel	You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: User Experiences of Engaging with Contract Cheating Sites
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 44 (2019) 8, S.1148-1162 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sutherland-Smith, Wendy) ORCID (Dullaghan, Kevin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
DOI	10.1080/02602938.2019.1576028
Schlagwörter	Cheating; Ethics; Assignments; Grades (Scholastic); College Students; Privacy; Advertising; Risk; Plagiarism; Foreign Countries; Persuasive Discourse; Credibility; Web Sites; Contracts; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prellen; Ethik; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Notenspiegel; Collegestudent; Privatsphäre; Werbung; Risiko; Plagiat; Ausland; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Glaubwürdigkeit; Web-Design; Vertrag; Australien
Abstract	Contract cheating sites advertise that they provide high quality, undetectable, bespoke work delivered in a timely manner to students purchasing their assignments. This paper tests contract cheating sites' promises about the products they sell. We built on previous reported research examining contract cheating sites' persuasive features which were mapped into three major dimensions. In this study, we explore how those dimensions are realised in practice. By purchasing 54 assignments from 18 different contract cheating sites across a range of disciplines, we found contract cheating sites' promises flawed. Many sites do not deliver assignments on time, or at all; they provide variable quality assignments (including fail grade work), and do not necessarily respond rapidly to user queries. When markers graded work, 52% of cheated tasks failed to meet the university pass standard. Furthermore, many contract cheating sites retain the right to share personal details with third parties under their privacy clauses and require levels of personal identification that leave users vulnerable. Students need to be aware that contract cheating sites' slick advertising is not necessarily borne out in reality. Universities can draw on this study's findings for student awareness and deterrence campaigns pointing out the risks of using contract cheating sites. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01