CRADLE in the media: Contract cheating and Turnitin’s Authorship Investigate

5 November 2019

The media tends to have quite an interest in CRADLE’s work on cheating (I wish they would be equally keen on my feedback research!) and our latest publication in the area is no exception.

CRADLE Fellow Wendy Sutherland-Smith and I worked with Turnitin’s Mark Ricksen on a study about Turnitin’s new tool Authorship Investigate. Ours is the first research study to compare how accurate markers are at detecting contract cheating with and without access to this sort of specialist software. We found that when markers used Authorship Investigate they correctly identified significantly more contract cheating, without any significant difference in false positives. You can find out more from any of the media sources below – or direct from the paper.

Six out of 10 contract cheating cases spotted using new software – Times Higher Education

Jock Palfreeman, contract cheating, and the danger of work friends – Triple J Hack

Paying for assignments is ‘blatant’, and the student customers are not being caught, studies show – Triple J News

The red flags alerting more markers to cheating at universities – The Sydney Morning Herald

How machine learning can tackle contract cheating – The Educator 

Turnitin looks to AI to detect student cheaters – IT Brief