Peer Effects in Academic Cheating

Evaluation of Cheating Detection Methods in Academic Writings

Purpose This research work informs about plagiarism and the consequences of anti-plagiarism services such as Turnitin.com, iThenticate, and PlagiarismDetect.com, in detecting the most recent cheatings in academic and other writings. Design/methodology/approach The most important approach is plagiarism prevention and finding proper solutions for detecting more complex kinds of plagiarisms throug...

Does Academic Peer Quality Promote Solidarity? Evidence from Caste Based Peer Effects in India

This paper investigates whether academic peer quality in colleges reduces social distance between castes in India by examining academic peer effects across castes. Using cutoff based admission rules and a unique data set linking admission data to college exit exam scores; I find that the better quality of high-caste students has a negative effect on the performance of the low-caste students. Th...

Teacher enthusiasm: a potential cure of academic cheating

In this research we claim that teachers' enthusiasm matters regarding student engagement in terms of academic cheating. Previous studies found that perceived enthusiasm of teachers is positively related to the intrinsic motivation of the students. However, it was less investigated how perceived enthusiasm is related to cheating. In the first exploratory questionnaire study (N = 244) we found th...

Good Guys vs. Bad Guys: Countering Cheating in Peer-to-Peer Authority Computations over Social Networks

Eigenvector computations are an important building block for computing authority, trust, and reputation scores in social networks and other graphs. In peer-to-peer networks or other forms of decentralized settings (such as multi-agent platforms), this kind of analysis needs to be performed in a distributed manner and requires bilateral data exchanges between peers. This gives rise to the proble...

Cheating prevention in peer-to-peer based massively multiuser virtual environments