Contract cheating – outsourcing student assignments for a fee – presents a growing threat to the integrity of higher education. As contract cheating is based on students purchasing assignments that are original (albeit not created by the student), traditional plagiarism detection tools remain insufficient to detect contract cheating. Part of the problem is that proving contract cheating is difficult. As a result, instructors may find it hard to prosecute students (i.e. put them through university academic dishonesty proceedings). To help address the problem, this conceptual paper builds upon extant scholarship on contract cheating and argues that a novel evidence-based approach is needed. Such an approach should allow instructors to detect and prosecute cases of contract cheating effectively and efficiently. The paper then presents an outline of such an approach and calls it the “Doping Test” approach as it mimics some aspects of doping testing in professional sport.

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检测和起诉有证据的合同作弊–“兴奋剂测试”方法

合同作弊–将学生作业外包（收费）–对高等教育的完整性构成了越来越大的威胁。由于合同作弊是基于学生购买的原始作业（尽管不是学生创建的），因此传统的窃检测工具仍然不足以检测合同作弊。问题的一部分是证明合同作弊很难。结果，教师可能很难起诉学生（即，使他们接受大学学术不诚实的诉讼程序）。为了帮助解决该问题，此概念性文件建立在现有的关于合同作弊的学术研究的基础之上，并认为需要一种新颖的基于证据的方法。这种方法应使教官有效和高效地发现并起诉合同欺诈案件。