cheating in college
Recent Seminars
Cheating: A Legal Primer Toolkit for Faculty & Administrators
Mitigating cheating is no easy task. Students have easy access to cheating technologies, while confusing policies and legal issues make enforcement difficult. This seminar will show you how to develop a simple, cohesive legal strategy that not only encourages academic integrity, but also makes it clear how to handle cheating if it occurs.
video Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Academic Dishonesty: How to Mitigate Student Cheating
As an accreditation evaluator for the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), Scott L. Howell, PhD goes out a couple of times each year to review the testing practices and assessment characteristics of higher education institutions that are under the NWCCU’s purview.
The New (and Old) Ways Students Cheat: What You Can Do About It
Now more than ever, educators are faced with a formidable challenge to ensure academic integrity. This seminar will enhance your understanding and awareness of the issues surrounding this important issue and suggest solutions to help mitigate cheating.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education
Online education didn’t invent cheating, but it does present unique challenges. This 20-page report provides proactive ways for meeting these challenges head on.
Academic Integrity in Distance Learning
The problem of academic dishonesty has become one of staggering proportions. In a recent paper on the subject, Robert Kitahara, assistant professor in the business programs at Troy University, and co-author Frederick Westfall, associate professor and regional chair of business programs for Troy University, detail a growing problem in distance learning in which students cheat on tests and assignments, then seek redress for wrongs against them when they are caught.
Academic Integrity: Creating Institutional Policies to Curb Student Cheating
Cheating is not a new problem for colleges, but the Internet and other technologies have increased opportunities for cheating, making it more tempting to try and easier to pull off than ever before.
Promoting a Culture of Academic Integrity
In last Wednesday’s post, Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, and Tricia Bertram Gallant, the authors of the newly released CHEATING IN SCHOOL: What We Know and What We Can Do, recommended steps faculty can take to reduce cheating in their classroom. In this, the second of a two-part email interview, the authors offer advice to academic leaders on how to create healthy environments that support ethical choices at all levels of the organization.
Tips to Reduce Cheating in the College Classroom
In CHEATING IN SCHOOL: What We Know and What We Can Do, (Wiley-Blackwell) authors Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, and Tricia Bertram Gallant provide a comprehensive look at the cheating phenomenon from primary through graduate school. In an email interview with Faculty Focus, the authors discuss academic integrity issues in higher education specifically, including steps that can be taken at the institutional level as well as in individual classrooms.
Helping Students Learn from Ethical Failures
Academic dishonesty is nothing new. It is as endemic to education as crime is to society. But today, cheating seems to be moving from an unfortunate and relatively rare occurrence to standard operating procedure for students. This seminar will give you proactive strategies for dealing with academic integrity issues on your campus.
