ArticleHeliyon2021
Exam cheating and academic integrity breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of internet search activity in Spain.
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- The change of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical education in Korea: a national survey of medical schools.Korean journal of medical education · 2023Article
- Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Comparing Online and Face-to-Face Performance in Scientific Courses: A Retrospective Comparative Gender Study of Year-1 Students.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023Article
- Students' Performance in Face-to-Face, Online, and Hybrid Methods of Teaching and Assessment in Anatomy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Virtual Pathology Education in Medical Schools Worldwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Advantages, Challenges Faced, and Perspectives.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Implementation of E-exams during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quantitative study in higher education.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Academic institutions worldwide have had to adapt their methods of teaching and assessment due to COVID-19. In many Spanish universities exams moved online, affording students with opportunities to breach academic integrity that were not previously available to them. This paper uses the emerging research method of search engine data analysis to investigate the extent of requests for exam cheating information in Spain in the time period surrounding adjustments for the pandemic. The Internet data analytics technique is one that the paper proposes should be used more widely as an academic integrity research method. For this study, search engine activity data on exam cheating in Spain was collected and analysed for the five-year period between 2016 and 2020 inclusive. The data suggests that students are searching for information about ways to cheat in exams, including how to create cheat sheets. Most strikingly, the results show a significant increase in requests for information on cheating on online exams during the COVID-19 timeframe and the Spanish lockdown period. Based on the findings, academic institutions in other regions should be wary about the opportunities that their students have to commit exam fraud.
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