Fraudulent published papers were once thought to be rare, but in recent years, there has been growing awareness of coordinated activities by for-profit organizations that charge authors a fee to sell articles and submit them to reputable journals. These are known as paper mills. We reflect here on how "Mind, Brain and Education" suffered…

Many instructional methods that focus on analytical, skill, and competency development have a single or small set of appropriate answers. Best-answer assignments are popular for largeenrollment classes because of the relative ease with which scoring and feedback can be managed at scale. However, cheating is regularly confirmed at disturbingly high…

The field of online education has increasingly recognized digitally automated proctoring as a prominent and pressing issue in recent years. The increasing prevalence of online examination deception has prompted a heated debate. The purpose of the study is to capture advancements in this research field, offering a concise overview of current…

While investigating plagiarism is relevant in different fields, verification of original authorship has also attracted attention in academia and L2 learning and assessment contexts. Generally associated with academic misconduct and dishonesty, plagiarism in writing can take many shapes and be hard to detect. In addition to being a very…

This article argues that ethical authorship is essential for the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). It examines tensions that historical understandings of authorship have created as instructors and students alike navigate AI technologies. Given these tensions, this article proposes a definition of "ethical authorship" and uses…

Purpose: The goal of this session is to provide an in-depth account of the history and development of contract cheating in Canada over the past 50+ years. You will also learn about the one and only (failed) attempt at legislation to make ghostwritten essays and exams illegal in Canada. Method: The content of this session is drawn from Eaton's book…