Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, Tricia Bertram Gallant

Cheating in School (eBook, PDF)

What We Know and What We Can Do

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Produktbeschreibung

Cheating in School is the first book to present the research on cheating in a clear and accessible way and provide practical advice and insights for educators, school administrators, and the average lay person. * Defines the problems surrounding cheating in schools and proposes solutions that can be applied in all educational settings, from elementary schools to post-secondary institutions * Addresses pressing questions such as "Why shouldn't students cheat if it gets them good grades?" and "What are parents, teachers, businesses, and the government doing to unintentionally persuade today's student to cheat their way through school?" * Describes short and long term deterrents that educators can use to foster academic integrity and make honesty more profitable than cheating * Outlines tactics and strategies for educators, administrators, school boards, and parents to advance a new movement of academic integrity instead of dishonesty

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444310269
• Artikelnr.: 38306782

Autorenporträt

Stephen F. Davis is Emeritus Professor at Emporia State University. In 2002-2003 he served as the Knapp Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego. In 2007 he was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Morningside College (Sioux City, IA). Currently he is the Distinguished Guest Professor at Morningside College and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Texas Wesleyan University. Since 1966 he has published over 300 articles on various research topics and 27 textbooks and presented over 900 professional papers; the vast majority of these publications and presentations include student coauthors. He has served as President of APA Division 2, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Southwestern Psychological Association, and Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology). Additionally, he was selected as the first recipient of the Psi Chi Florence L. Denmark Faculty Advisor Award. He is a Fellow of APA Divisions 1 (General), 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology), 3 (Experimental), and 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology). Patrick F. Drinan, Professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego, completed his Ph.D. in 1972 at the University of Virginia, and it was there that he first developed his interest in academic integrity. Drinan served as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego from 1989-2007 and has been active in the Center for Academic Integrity since the mid-1990s. He has authored and co-authored many articles on academic integrity this last decade and has served as a consultant on academic integrity at the university level. He is the 2006 recipient of the Donald McCabe Award for Liftime Achievement in the firld of academic integrity. Tricia Bertram Gallant serves as the Academic Integrity Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego. In this capacity, she is responsible for managing the university's Policy on Integrity of Scholarship and its corresponding processes, educating the campus community on academic integrity, assisting faculty in implementing short-term cheating deterrents, and working with key campus constituencies on long-term deterrents and initiatives to create a culture of academic integrity on campus. Bertram Gallant has also been active with the Center for Academic Integrity since 2002, having served as a member of its Board of Directors and as the chair of its Advisory Council. She has authored and co-authored (with Patrick Drinan) many articles on academic integrity, which have been published in The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, NASPA, and the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, and is the sole author of Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative, published by Jossey-Bass in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Authors.

Preface.

1 Cheating in Our Schools, Colleges, and Universities: ACritical Problem for the Twenty-First Century.

2 The Nature and Prevalence of Student Cheating.

3 Reasons for Academic Dishonesty: Situation, Disposition, andChanging Times.

4 From Cheat Sheet to Text Messaging: The Evolution ofTechniques.

5 Short-Term Deterrents: Strategies for Class, Labs, and OnlineTesting.

6 Long-Term Deterrents: Development of Individual andInstitutional Integrity.

7 The Call for Action and Wisdom: Conversations That Make aDifference.

8 Refining Our Tactics and Strategies.

9 An Optimistic (and Provocative) Conclusion: Finding the Goodin Student Cheating.

Notes.

Author index.

Subject index.

Rezensionen

"The plan includes infusing academic integrity into the fabric ofschools, colleges or universities, developing student character andintegrity, responding to cheating, reducing temptations andopportunities for cheating, and acknowledging that cheating happensand it is a problem." (Suite101.com, 23 November 2010)

"A comprehensive look at the cheating phenomenon from primarythrough graduate school." (Faculty Focus, October 2009)

"[The authors] combine their years of interest in and experiencewith issues of academic integrity to provide an overview of theproblem of academic dishonesty at all levels of education.... Thisis the first attempt to synthesize all levels and several nationsin a concise, readable format accessible to the general reader.Theauthors cite plenty of real-world examples and suggest usabletactics and strategies ... thus making the book useful foreducators as well as lay readers.... A great overview of asignificant subject, accessibly accomplished." (LibraryJournal, October 2009)

"I found Cheating in School to be a good read.... I recommendthis book to both faculty and administrators who must deal withthis issue in their work." (International Higher EducationConsulting Blog, October 2009)

"Although much of the specific advice in the book is U.S.focused, the genuine and broad-ranging vision offered by theauthors make the lessons applicable internationally."(International Journal for Educational Integrity, June2009)"In a high-stakes society where the ends are often valued more thanthe means, cheating has permeated all levels of education. Thisbook is a must-have for anyone wishing to understand the causes ofcheating and find ways to prevent its occurrence."
-Bryan K. Saville, James Madison University

"Cheating in School provides a compelling call to action. Rather than simply sensationalizing individual cases of cheating,it provides a broad and balanced perspective and outlinesreasonable short and long-term actions we can all take."
-Lauren Scharff, Ph.D, Director of the Centerfor the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), U. S. AirForce Academy

"This book combines the work of experienced authors who haveunique knowledge of different facets of academic integrity and itsattendant problems. Working together, they have created a volumethat brings together the various stakeholders concerned withacademic cheating. They articulate the problem and define it in allits myriad forms, from the student who copies another's examto the parent who 'helps' more than she should.
The book prompts the reader to wonder why cheating is not centralto the 21st-century education agenda, and how our values becomecircumvented or distorted in relation to this issue."
-Ken Keith, University of San Diego

"Cheating in school: What we know and what we can do, isperhaps the most comprehensive and accessible text on the topic ofacademic integrity that I have read. What makes this bookspecial is the clear intention of the authors to look beyond theindividual to the broader institutional and societal milieu withinwhich student cheating occurs, but always with clearly articulatedoptimism. Stephen Davis, Patrick Drinan and Tricia Bertram Gallantshould be congratulated on this carefully and elegantly constructedpresentation of the field."
-Tracey Bretag, Editor, International Journal forEducational Integrity, University of South Australia