Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity: Strategies for Change

by Ann Lathrop

Overview

Lathrop and Foss call for a change in school culture from one that ignores or tolerates cheating to one in which every effort is made to value, encourage and support honesty. Offering quick and practical ideas that can be used in the classroom or at home, they offer examples of good and bad behavior and first-person accounts, including essays by students explaining why they do not cheat. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897899581
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/30/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	375 KB

About the Author

Ann Lathrop is Professor Emerita, California State University, Long Beach.

Kathleen Foss is Media Specialist, Los Alamitos Unified School District, California.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Focus on Honesty and Integrity
Creating a School Culture of Honesty and Integrity
Student voices
Responding to Students
Parents' Role in Developing Student Honesty and Integrity
Leadership in Action
Effective Leaders Create Effective Policies
Academmic Integrity Policy or Honor Code? Dealing With the "Student Ratting" Issue
Librarians As a Force for Integrity
Pursuing Victory With Honor
Integrity in the Writing Process
Moving from Plagiarism to Integrity in the Writing Process
Lessons to Support Integrity in the Writing Process
Using Technology With Integrity
Online Education Today
Keeping Technology Honest
Appendices
Appendix A: National Surveys on Student Cheating and Plagiarism
Appendix B: Survey Forms
Appendix C: Annotated Table of Contents for Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-up Call (Libraries Unlimited, 2000)

Editorial Reviews

Lathrop and Foss offer pithy, helpful recommendations on how to combat various forms of academic dishonesty in schools and colleges. The strategies will assist students, parents, librarians, counselors, and administrators in their quest to create antidotes to a social dilemma that is part and parcel of wider cultural ills of excessive competition and materialism. The volume, which includes useful appendixes, focuses on issues of classroom honesty, the construction and maintenance of effective institutional leadership goals, how to avoid plagiarism and support integrity in the writing process, and technological methods for sustaining honest practices. Student voices, along with those of parents and educational leaders, add particular illumination to the book….Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, administrators, counselors, and college librarians.” —Choice

“This new offering is not a how-to manual for catching cheaters. Instead, as its title declares, its intent is to help teachers, parents, students and administrators work together to create institutional cultures that support honesty and fairness….Several selections are labeled COPY ME. Each one of sixty COPY ME pages may be copied and redistributed, with proper attribution, for any educational use. Not only do these pages make the book substantially easier for educators to use, but they are also a nice example of the themes of the book in action.” —Public Services Quarterly

“Starred Review [T]his book is divided into broad topics such as honesty, leadership, integrity, plagiarism, and technology. In addition to essays, the authors provide pages labeled copy me. The idea is to reproduce thes pages so that groups can read and discuss the ideas and issues raised. Each page has a permission sentence attached to let students know that there has been no violation of copyright. This book is a practical guide that can help change attitudes of both students and teachers about cheating. Highly Recommended.” —Library Media Connection

“[C]hallenging teachers, librarians, and parents to transform school culture from one that tacitly condones cheating to one that supports honesty. The book offes practical ideas and actions that can bring about this cultural change and also includes first-person accounts by educators, students, and parents on such themes as student whistleblowers and policies that support honest students.” —American Libraries

“This book is required reading of every teacher, teacher-librarian, principal, counselor, and parent. The book's content needs to be discussed with children and teenagers….A wonderful feature of this book is that a number of short pieces may be copied by the owner of the book for use with groups for discussion, idea generation, or just plain thinking….Strongly recommended as one of the essential professional books of the year.” —Teacher Librarian

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