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    University students’ understanding of contract cheating: a qualitative case study in Kuwait
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2022
    In:  Language Testing in Asia Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-12-02)
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    In: Language Testing in Asia, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-12-02)
    Abstract: Contract cheating, or students outsourcing their assignments to be completed by others, has emerged as a significant threat to academic integrity in higher education institutions around the world. During the COVID-19, when traditional face-to-face instruction became unsustainable, the number of contract cheating students increased dramatically. Through focus group interviews, this study sought the perspectives of 25 students enrolled in first year writing in a private higher education institution in Kuwait during the pandemic in 2020–2021, on their attitudes towards contract cheating. MAXQDA 2020 was used to examine the data. The participants believe that the primary motivations for engaging in contract cheating are mainly the opportunities presented by online learning and the psychological and physical challenges they experienced during online learning. Those who did not cheat had some shared traits, such as a competitive spirit, confidence in their talents, and a strong desire to learn. Additionally, those with high moral values avoided cheating. To combat contract cheating, students believe that teaching and evaluation techniques should be drastically altered and that students should be educated about plagiarism, while institutions should impose tougher sanctions on repeat offenders.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2229-0443
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1186/s40468-022-00208-y
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Analyzing rater severity in a freshman composition course using many facet Rasch measurement
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2020
    In:  Language Testing in Asia Vol. 10, No. 1 ( 2020-12)
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    In: Language Testing in Asia, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 10, No. 1 ( 2020-12)
    Abstract: This study examined the rater severity of instructors using a multi-trait rubric in a freshman composition course offered in a private university in Kuwait. Use of standardized multi-trait rubrics is a recent development in this course and student feedback and anchor papers provided by instructors for each essay exam necessitated the assessment of rater effects, including severity/leniency and restriction of range in ratings among instructors. Data were collected from three instructors teaching the same course in Summer 2019, who rated the first midterm exam essays of their students and shared the scores with the researcher. Also, two students from each class were randomly selected and a total of six papers were marked by all instructors for anchoring purposes. Many-facet Rasch model (MFRM) was employed for data analysis. The results showed that although the raters used the rubric consistently during scoring across all examinees and tasks, they differed in their degree of leniency and severity, and tended to assign scores of 70 and 80 more frequently than the other scores. The study shows that composition instructors may differ in their rating behavior and this may cause dissatisfaction, creating a sense of unfairness among the students of severe instructors. The findings of this study are expected to help writing departments to monitor their inter-rater reliability and consistency in their ratings. The most practical way to achieve this is by organizing rater training workshops.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2229-0443
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1186/s40468-020-0098-3
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2020
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    Gathering evidence on e-rubrics: Perspectives and many facet Rasch analysis of rating behavior
    International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education ; 2021
    In:  International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education Vol. 8, No. 2 ( 2021-06-10), p. 454-474
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    In: International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, Vol. 8, No. 2 ( 2021-06-10), p. 454-474
    Abstract: This study examined the faculty perspectives towards the use of electronic rubrics and their rating behavior in a freshman composition course. A mixed-methods approach has been employed for data collection and analysis. The data for faculty perspectives were collected from nine instructors through semi-structured interviews and for their behavior, six instructors teaching the same course in Fall 2019, shared their students’ essay scores with the researchers. Many facet Rasch model (MFRM) was employed for quantitative data analysis. According to the findings of the quantitative data, the instructors differed in their degree of leniency and severity, one instructor being more lenient and one being more severe than the others. Another interesting finding was one instructor turned out to be an inconsistent user of the e-rubric. The findings of the qualitative data showed that writing faculty think e-rubrics come with great advantages such as facilitating scoring, ensuring standardization, and reducing student complaints and grade appeals. However, they view the impact of e-rubrics on student writing with cautious optimism. The findings of the qualitative and quantitative strands are overlapping, and the responses elicited from the participants seem to shed some light on the rating behavior of the writing faculty.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2148-7456
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.21449/ijate.818151
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education
    Publication Date: 2021
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    Academic domains as political battlegrounds : A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology
    SAGE Publications ; 2017
    In:  Information Development Vol. 33, No. 3 ( 2017-06), p. 270-288
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    In: Information Development, SAGE Publications, Vol. 33, No. 3 ( 2017-06), p. 270-288
    Abstract: This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars’ reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political ‘actors’, just like their human counterparts, having ‘agency’ – which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) ‘battlefields’ wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. For more information about the authorship approach, please see Al Lily AEA (2015) A crowd-authoring project on the scholarship of educational technology. Information Development. doi: 10.1177/0266666915622044.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0266-6669 , 1741-6469
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1177/0266666916646415
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    AN 10100
    Language: English
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Publication Date: 2017
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    The rise of contract cheating during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study through the eyes of academics in Kuwait
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2021
    In:  Language Testing in Asia Vol. 11, No. 1 ( 2021-12)
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    In: Language Testing in Asia, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 11, No. 1 ( 2021-12)
    Abstract: Contract cheating has gone rampant in higher education recently. When institutions switched to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of contract cheating students climbed to unprecedented levels. Essay mills saw the lack of face-to-face interaction and proctoring on campus as an opportunity and used aggressive marketing methods to attract students. This study asked the opinions of 20 faculty members working in the English departments of private higher education institutions in Kuwait regarding contract cheating through interviews. The data was analyzed with MAXQDA 2020. The findings show that all faculty members can recognize contract cheating easily. Most of them see contract cheating as a serious problem in the higher education system, a threat to the reliability of language assessment, triggered by laziness, the social pressure to graduate with a high GPA, and exacerbated by the cheating opportunities in online education. Academics have developed certain individual strategies in their courses to curb the number of contract cheating students; however, institutional measures differ, and in some, there are no measures or sanctions on contract cheating students.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2229-0443
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1186/s40468-021-00149-y
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2021
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    An attempt to understand plagiarism in Kuwait through a psychometrically sound instrument
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2022
    In:  International Journal for Educational Integrity Vol. 18, No. 1 ( 2022-11-14)
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    In: International Journal for Educational Integrity, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 18, No. 1 ( 2022-11-14)
    Abstract: The purpose of this study is to understand student perceptions towards plagiarism and identify some factors influencing their plagiarist behaviour to be able to develop successful strategies to promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism. Although academic dishonesty and plagiarism have been investigated by many researchers, psychometric qualities of these data collection instruments have generally been ignored, which has resulted in a shortage of standardized and validated questionnaires in the literature. Therefore, to address this issue the researcher ran a rigorous psychometric analysis on a previously developed and psychometrically evaluated questionnaire (Attitudes Towards Plagiarism). The modified instrument was conducted on 404 students studying in a private university in Kuwait in March 2022, representing the first administration of a psychometrically established plagiarism scale in the Kuwaiti context. The statistical analysis revealed that students’ perceptions are significantly different according to the high school type they graduated from, their reasons for studying at the university, and their post-graduation career plans, whereas gender, major and year of study do not cause statistically significant differences.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1833-2595
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1007/s40979-022-00120-1
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Kuwaiti Undergraduate Studentss Perceptions of ICT in Writing Classes
    Elsevier BV ; 2015
    In:  SSRN Electronic Journal
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    In: SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier BV
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1556-5068
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2834449
    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2015
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