Turnaround time and market capacity in contract cheating
Turnaround time and market capacity in contract cheating
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DOI：
10.1080/03055698.2014.889597
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发表时间：
2014-03-15
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Newton, Philip M.
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作者：
Wallace, Melisa J.;Newton, Philip M.
合同作弊是指学生拍卖他人完成作业的机会的过程。这显然是一个普遍存在但研究不足的问题。一种防止合同作弊的建议策略是缩短作业细节发布和提交日期之间的周转时间，从而使学生难以与承包商进行安排。在这里，我们概述了当前合同作弊市场的一些特征，并证明了较短的周转时间不太可能防止合同作弊，因为通过合同作弊完成的大学级作业所需的周转时间已经很短(平均5天)。此外，对于每个获得一份工作的承包商，平均有10个其他承包商提出在指定时间内完成这项工作，这表明市场上存在大量过剩产能。
Contract cheating is the process whereby students auction off the opportunity for others to complete assignments for them. It is an apparently widespread yet under-researched problem. One suggested strategy to prevent contract cheating is to shorten the turnaround time between the release of assignment details and the submission date, thus making it difficult for students to make arrangements with contractors. Here, we outline some characteristics of the current market for contract cheating and demonstrate that short turnaround times are unlikely to prevent contract cheating because requested turnaround times for university-level assignments completed via contract cheating are already short (average 5 days). In addition, for every contractor awarded a job, there are an average of 10 others offering to complete it within the specified time suggesting that there is abundant excess capacity in the market.