Transformation of Student Cheating in Web 2.0
Date Issued
2014-06
Author(s)
Katerina Zdravkova
Abstract
Many students don’t choose the rightful means to pass their exams. Their main goal is to
successfully finish the assignments with a minimum possible effort. New technologies
that implement social media and interactive collaboration have triggered the
remodelling of frauds and tricks students implement. Such remodelled cheating
activities are more concealed, thus more difficult to discover. This paper presents the
most common traditional student frauds contrasted with the transformed techniques
emerged from the introduction of e-Learning 2.0. The measures applied to detect the
existence of various kinds of cheating and recommendations how to reduce them are
introduced together with the limits set by interactive techniques and teacher’s activities
to prove the suspected scam. The estimation of the frequency of the different types of
cheating is presented in parallel with the results of an anonymous questionnaire
revealing student impression about fraudulent behaviour of their colleagues and
themselves. The paper proves that without a proactive implementation of protection
measures to prevent cheating, many students will resort to different kinds of dishonesty
in order to accomplish their ultimate goal to pass the exam with no remorse.
successfully finish the assignments with a minimum possible effort. New technologies
that implement social media and interactive collaboration have triggered the
remodelling of frauds and tricks students implement. Such remodelled cheating
activities are more concealed, thus more difficult to discover. This paper presents the
most common traditional student frauds contrasted with the transformed techniques
emerged from the introduction of e-Learning 2.0. The measures applied to detect the
existence of various kinds of cheating and recommendations how to reduce them are
introduced together with the limits set by interactive techniques and teacher’s activities
to prove the suspected scam. The estimation of the frequency of the different types of
cheating is presented in parallel with the results of an anonymous questionnaire
revealing student impression about fraudulent behaviour of their colleagues and
themselves. The paper proves that without a proactive implementation of protection
measures to prevent cheating, many students will resort to different kinds of dishonesty
in order to accomplish their ultimate goal to pass the exam with no remorse.
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