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.
Phil Newton, lead author of the paper published in the Journal of Academic Ethics, said that, if anything, the true rate of cheating was likely to have been even higher.
“Everything we know about the way people respond to surveys would suggest it’s an underreport,” said Professor Newton, an expert in academic integrity based at Swansea University.
