EDUJ : English Education Journal
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): June 2024

An Analysis of Applications Employed by Students to Cheat on Exams

Nurhaliza, Nisrina (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jul 2024

Abstract

This research intended to find out the reasons for students’ cheating, the applications used by students to cheat, and the solutions for educators to avoid students from cheating. This research used a mixed method. This research was conducted in STIKes Bina Cipta Husada Purwokerto. 16 students of Clinical and Community Pharmacy and two English lecturers were the subjects of this research. Questionnaires and interviews were conducted to collect the data. Then, the data was analyzed using data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The result obtained that there are four reasons for students’ cheating such as unconfident to do exams, lack of motivation, dislike of English, and social situational factors. Meanwhile, the applications employed by students to cheat on exams such as Gemini, DeepL, Bing, Roboguru, and Question. AI. To overcome students’ cheating problems, educators can do many things such as make anti-cheating pledges, different versions of tests, switch seating on every test day, use a questions pool, and application to detect plagiarism, and give compliments to students.

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Journal Info

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eduj

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

EDUJ: English Education Journal is scholarly journal that is open access and devoted to improving our understanding of English language, linguistic, applied linguistic, and English literature. The journal seeks to promote interdisciplinary research that yields useful outcomes and advances knowledge ...