Global Essay Mills Survey Project Summary · 2018. 6. 8. · What is GEMS? The Global Essay Mills...
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Global Essay Mills SurveyProject Summary
Rebecca Awdry and Veronika Králíková
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.
Respondents and
demographics
Languages
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%
33%
65%
2%
Male
Female
Unspecified
No answer
Gender
Personal study
behaviours
Why did you choose to come to university?
Increase chances of
getting a job
Expand knowledge of a specific
disciplne
Have you ever seen or heard of any services selling work/assignments to students ?
...and other ways
Throughsocial
networks
Posters/flyers in local
area
Throughtutors
Advertsin localmedia
Through a university network
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%
Other students’
study behaviours
Are you aware of any of your friends or peershaving used these sites (either essay mills, peer sharing, assignment bidding, or bespoke sites)?
What proportion of
students do you
think use these sites?
21%
Under what circumstances do you think it is acceptable to cheat?
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
Outcomes for cheating
Less than 1% (0.72%) of
respondents had ever beencaught cheating at
university by submitting work they obtained from
someone else
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%
What do you think should be the outcome for students caught after buying work and submitting it as their own?
What do you think should be the outcome for students caught after buying work and submitting it as their own?
Legality
Do you think essay mills are illegal, and should be illegal, in your country?
LEGAL
ILLEGAL
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
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