iCOP survey

International Contract Cheating Project Survey

Dear Student,
This is an invitation for you to participate in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wollongong in Dubai and European Network for Academic Integrity. The research is called International Contract Cheating Project (iCOP). The investigators of this study have been keen to understand the issue of contract cheating, its prevalence among students, reasons, student awareness of policies, attitudes, perceptions and practices.

If you choose to participate you will be asked to be involved in a 10 minute survey about your attitude and practices regarding understanding of contract cheating. Please remember you are free to choose NOT to answer any question that you may find distressful. Apart from taking 10 minutes of your time for filling in the questionnaire, we can foresee no risks for you. You are free to decide if you want to be involved in this project or not and you can stop participating at any time before you submit this survey. The survey is anonymous in nature and the questionnaires with their responses will not be shared with your University.

This project has been reviewed by the Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of Wollongong, Reference (2019/045). If you have any concerns or complaints about the conduct of this research please contact the Ethics Manager on 02 4221 4457 or email rso-ethics@uow.edu.au.email at

Disclaimer: Please note any act of cheating or e-cheating either on paper, during examinations, or while writing a report, as copying from others with or without their permission or plagiarism in reports or essays is observed as serious offence at academic level and should not be indulged in any way. Please note your responses will have no legal implications on yourself or others. However, no specific examples should be disclosed in any way. If any illegal examples are disclosed the researcher has an obligation to report it to the relevant authorities.