The efforts of the UK Data Archive – and from 2013 – the UK Data Service, have been fruitful, giving rise to a number of research awards to UK Data Service staff at Essex and in creating the well-received 2014 Sage Handbook on Managing and Sharing Data: A Guide to Good Practice.
This evangelism and practical and grounded guidance around data sharing – be it quantitative or qualitative – has been oriented towards professional researchers.
A changing scene
In discussion with lecturers in various nigeria rcs data universities, we see that dishonesty is becoming more widespread, with essays and dissertations being purchased.
This has prompted new guidance for Universities on how to deal with ‘Contract Cheating’, such as in the QAA Contracting to Cheat in Higher Education: How to Address Contract Cheating, the Use of Third-Party Services and Essay Mills (QAA, October 2017).
The idea of faking data and results led Louise Corti, Development and Data Publishing at the UK Data Service, to approach various undergraduate lecturers to discuss whether deception in dissertations might be an issue, and if so, what might supervisors do to detect it.
Responding to the reply that there was not much that could be done, led her to consider a new approach. Louise observes that:
I was interested to see whether we could reduce the complexity of our current data management and sharing guidance and training, aimed at professional researchers, and apply the core principles to the classroom.