Academic Cheating Surged 13-Fold During Pandemic, Study Shows

Expert finds incidents of provable wrongdoing among students taking remote exams 'obscenely high'

Proctors at Meazure Learning as they monitor online tests. Courtesy of Meazure Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in academic cheating’s biggest increase in 16 years, according to Jarrod Morgan, founder of test supervision company Meazure Learning.

A new study by Meazure shows that from 2019 to 2021, confirmed cases of academic cheating during online monitored tests increased by about 13 times.