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Page 1: Global Essay Mills Survey Project Summary · 2018. 6. 8. · What is GEMS? The Global Essay Mills Survey (GEMS)-Released 2017-18, for 13 weeks-22 languages-3 Continents-Explore student

Global Essay Mills SurveyProject Summary

Rebecca Awdry and Veronika Králíková

[email protected]

[email protected]

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What is GEMS?The Global Essay Mills Survey (GEMS)

- Released 2017-18, for 13 weeks

- 22 languages

- 3 Continents

- Explore student experience and study behaviours

at university, their reasons for studying, any

outsourcing behaviours of their assignments, or

knowledge of others’.

- Also asked students when they think it is OK to

cheat, what the outcomes should be for cheating,

and if they think essay mills should be illegal.

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Respondents and

demographics

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Languages

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Lan

gu

ag

e

Uk

rain

ian

Ita

lia

n

Tu

rkis

h

Hu

ng

ari

an

Ro

ma

nia

n

Czech

Sw

ed

ish

Sp

an

ish

Se

rbia

n

En

gli

sh

Total

responses 251 266 331 449 474 804 1530 1613 2125 2341

%

Complete 42% 88% 52% 47% 76% 67% 75% 67% 60% 72%

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33%

65%

2%

Male

Female

Unspecified

No answer

Gender

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Personal study

behaviours

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Why did you choose to come to university?

Increase chances of

getting a job

Expand knowledge of a specific

disciplne

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Have you ever seen or heard of any services selling work/assignments to students ?

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...and other ways

Throughsocial

networks

Posters/flyers in local

area

Throughtutors

Advertsin localmedia

Through a university network

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Have you ever bought work from another student to submit as your own assignment?

Have you ever got work to submit as your own(whether free or for money), from a friend or family member?

1.84%

10.84%

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Other students’

study behaviours

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Are you aware of any of your friends or peershaving used these sites (either essay mills, peer sharing, assignment bidding, or bespoke sites)?

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What proportion of

students do you

think use these sites?

21%

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Under what circumstances do you think it is acceptable to cheat?

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Under what circumstances is itacceptable to cheat

If there are financial implications to failure

If another failure would mean failing the course

When you see others cheating and nothing is done about it

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Outcomes for cheating

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Less than 1% (0.72%) of

respondents had ever beencaught cheating at

university by submitting work they obtained from

someone else

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Are you aware of anyone who has ever been caught for having submitted work which they bought?

Swedish with 9.08% and Turkish with 9.88%, knowing

someone who had been caught; compared with Ukrainian at 47.17%

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What do you think should be the outcome for students caught after buying work and submitting it as their own?

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What do you think should be the outcome for students caught after buying work and submitting it as their own?

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Legality

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Do you think essay mills are illegal, and should be illegal, in your country?

LEGAL

ILLEGAL

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Should it be the companies or the students at fault?

BOTH!

Preference for

companies

• Hungarian

• Romanian

• Serbian

• Swedish

• Italian

• Turkish

• English

Preference for

students

• Ukrainian

• Spanish

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Project Manager

Rebecca Awdry (Deakin University, Australia)

Project co-ordinators

Rebecca Awdry (Deakin University, Australia)

Veronika Kralikova (Mendel University in Brno, Czechia)

Team members

Jana Dannhoferova (Mendel University in Brno, Czechia)

Dita Dlabolova (Mendel University in Brno, Czechia)

Tomas Foltynek (Mendel University in Brno, Czechia)

Bob Ives (University of Nevada, USA)

Sonja Bjelobaba (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

David Rettinger (University of Mary Washington, USA)

ENAI members and all other participants