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Author DAWSON, PHILLIP

Title DEFENDING ASSESSMENT SECURITY IN A DIGITAL WORLD preventing e-cheating and supporting academic... integrity in higher education
Published [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2020

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Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: E-Cheating -- Defining e-cheating -- What is different about e-cheating? -- Academic integrity, fraud, hacking and e-cheating -- An affordance-based taxonomy of e-cheating approaches -- Providing access to unauthorised information -- Breaching information restrictions -- Information-smuggling devices -- Running an online examination within a virtual machine, and running a web browser in the host operating system -- Text input hardware
Accessing questions, solutions, answers and exemplars -- 'Braindumps' of exam questions -- Essay banks and assignment trading sites -- Forensic analysis to identify questions and answers -- Cognitive offloading to a tool -- Essay spinning, auto-paraphrase and back-translation tools -- Translation tools -- Computer Algebra Solvers -- Bespoke essay writing tools -- Outsourcing work to a person -- Contract cheating -- Online course-taking -- Remote coaches -- Expert input -- Disrupting the assessment process -- Thwarting anti-cheating approaches -- Bypassing text-matching software
Defeating remote proctoring software -- Bypassing website blocking with a VPN -- Pulling the plug -- Causing problems for students and teachers -- Denial of service attacks -- E-cheating: a significant problem, but what can we do about it? -- Things to do -- Chapter 2: Assessment security -- What is assessment? -- Two key features of assessment security -- Authentication -- Control of circumstances -- Information -- Tools -- A note about restrictions -- Availability -- (Im)perfect assessment security -- Approaches to improving assessment security -- Detection, evidence and penalties -- Technology
Surveillance -- Lockdown -- Stylometrics -- Content matching -- Assessment design -- Legal approaches -- Problems with assessment security -- Things to do -- Chapter 3: The E-Cheating lifecycle and how to disrupt it -- Awareness raising -- Students don't just find e-cheating -- e-cheating finds students -- Review sites, discount codes and seduction -- 'Free' e-cheating -- Approaches for disrupting e-cheating awareness raising -- Approach 1: Lobbying platforms to disallow the promotion of e-cheating -- Approach 2: Blocking access to e-cheating sites
Approach 3: Legislation against the promotion of e-cheating -- Approach 4: Promotion of academic integrity -- Purchasing -- Contract cheating websites -- E-cheating hardware websites -- Gig economy websites -- Large-scale e-commerce sites -- Dark web -- Approaches for disrupting e-cheating purchases -- Approach 1: Lobbying payment processors -- Approach 2: Lobbying gig economy platforms -- Content production -- Human cheating content production -- Computerised cheating content production -- Approaches for disrupting e-cheating content production
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cheating (Education) -- Technological innovations
Cheating (Education) -- Prevention
Educational technology -- Security measures
Universities and colleges -- Examinations.
College students -- Conduct of life.
Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
Cheating (Education) -- Prevention
College students -- Conduct of life
Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
Universities and colleges
Genre/Form Examinations
Form Electronic book
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