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Open Access to Article from the International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education

Eyes on Your Own Paper: Cheating in the Digital Age

By IGI Global on Apr 29, 2013
By Myla Merkel, Editorial Communications Coordinator

Eyes on Your Own Paper: Cheating in the Digital AgeDid you ever cheat in school? I think we all did at some point, but we hid tiny pieces of paper in pencil cases, wrote notes on our hands, and stenciled formulas onto rulers. Now, as the archaic views of the classroom are dying and more schools embrace technology as an important tool for learning, cheating on exams has gotten a little more advanced.

According to Education Week, the annual report by the Pew Internet and American Life project found that 95 percent of teenagers are active online, and nearly three out of four children ages 12 to 17 access the Internet via mobile devices – which makes virtual connections an essential aspect in most students’ lives.

It’s a fact; we live in a world with information at our fingertips. But what happens when the ease in retrieving information has altered our academic integrity? With many classes being taught online, how do teachers make sure their students are not cheating?

According to a feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education, this is where ProctorU steps in. ProctorU is a company hired by universities to “maintain the integrity in online education programs”. Instead of one proctor at the head of the classroom that roams the aisles monitoring students, ProctorU has remote access to each student’s computer screen and observes them through the webcam connection. Hailey Schnorr, who works for ProctorU, has said, “What we look for is eye movement; when the eyes start veering off to the side, that’s clearly a red flag.” Reports of cheating incidences and suspicious behavior are then supplied to the college or university for their records.

Kevin Curran, Gary Middleton, and Ciaran Doherty, authors of the article “Cheating in Exams with Technology”, feel that it is crucial for today’s instructors to stay up-to-date on the new methods of cheating in the classroom. Their recently published article in the International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education expresses this growing concern:

“Methods of cheating have become ever more sophisticated and hard to detect. Increasing miniaturization of technology along with increased information storage will undoubtedly lead to increases in cheating. All participants need to have an agreed perception of what constitutes cheating.”

In their article, the authors evaluate all aspects of cheating; from the technology used to cheat in examinations, how these cheats are performed, and how they can be prevented. In support of this timely article, IGI Global is offering open access to the article “Cheating in Exams with Technology” to support the further research of technology ethics in education. To download this article please visit: https://www.igi-global.com/free-content/54453. Individual journal articles are also available for purchase through IGI Global's InfoSci®-OnDemand, which allows full-text searching through our entire collection of thousands of research articles, book chapters, and teaching cases.

Edited by Kadir Beycioglu of the Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey, the International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education provides the latest research on ethical technology use and behavior in all levels of education based on the first-hand experience, observation, and knowledge of students and educations in the field.
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