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Majority of students cheat in online exams – study

From Times Higher Education: “A majority of students cheated in online exams conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic, a landmark study suggests. A review of 19 surveys with more than 4,600 participants in total found that 54.7 per cent of respondents admitted cheating in online exams during the pandemic, compared with 29.9 per cent before coronavirus. … Professor Newton and co-author Keioni Essex found that many students cheated simply because an easy opportunity presented itself.”

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