Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It

With academic dishonesty on the rise, this book explains why students cheat, how to foster integrity, and why it matters.

Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, and the college years are a critical period for their development of ethical standards. Cheating in College explores how and why students cheat and what policies, practices, and participation may be useful in promoting academic integrity and reducing cheating.

The authors investigate trends over time, including internet-based cheating. They consider personal and situational explanations, such as the culture of groups in which dishonesty is more common (such as business majors) and social settings that support cheating (such as fraternities and sororities). They also focus on how faculty and administrators are increasing their efforts to promote academic honesty among students. Orientation and training sessions, information on college and university websites, student handbooks that describe codes of conduct, honor codes, and course syllabi all define cheating and establish the consequences.

Based on the authors’ multiyear, multisite surveys, Cheating in College quantifies and analyzes student cheating to demonstrate why academic integrity is important and to describe the cultural efforts that are effective in restoring it.

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Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It

With academic dishonesty on the rise, this book explains why students cheat, how to foster integrity, and why it matters.

Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, and the college years are a critical period for their development of ethical standards. Cheating in College explores how and why students cheat and what policies, practices, and participation may be useful in promoting academic integrity and reducing cheating.

The authors investigate trends over time, including internet-based cheating. They consider personal and situational explanations, such as the culture of groups in which dishonesty is more common (such as business majors) and social settings that support cheating (such as fraternities and sororities). They also focus on how faculty and administrators are increasing their efforts to promote academic honesty among students. Orientation and training sessions, information on college and university websites, student handbooks that describe codes of conduct, honor codes, and course syllabi all define cheating and establish the consequences.

Based on the authors’ multiyear, multisite surveys, Cheating in College quantifies and analyzes student cheating to demonstrate why academic integrity is important and to describe the cultural efforts that are effective in restoring it.

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Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It

Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It

Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It

Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It

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Overview

With academic dishonesty on the rise, this book explains why students cheat, how to foster integrity, and why it matters.

Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, and the college years are a critical period for their development of ethical standards. Cheating in College explores how and why students cheat and what policies, practices, and participation may be useful in promoting academic integrity and reducing cheating.

The authors investigate trends over time, including internet-based cheating. They consider personal and situational explanations, such as the culture of groups in which dishonesty is more common (such as business majors) and social settings that support cheating (such as fraternities and sororities). They also focus on how faculty and administrators are increasing their efforts to promote academic honesty among students. Orientation and training sessions, information on college and university websites, student handbooks that describe codes of conduct, honor codes, and course syllabi all define cheating and establish the consequences.

Based on the authors’ multiyear, multisite surveys, Cheating in College quantifies and analyzes student cheating to demonstrate why academic integrity is important and to describe the cultural efforts that are effective in restoring it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421407562
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Donald L. McCabe (1944–2016) was a professor of management and global business at the Rutgers Business School. Kenneth D. Butterfield is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship at Washington State University. Linda K. Treviño is a distinguished professor of organizational behavior and ethics in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

1. A Journey and a Commitment to Action
2. Where to Begin
3. Prevalence, Types, and Methods of Cheating in College
4. Individual Student Characteristics That Influence Cheating
5. Institutional Factors That Influence Academic Integrity
6. Institutional Factors That Influence Academic Integrity
7. The Faculty Role in Creating a Strong Environment of Academic Integrity
8. Academic Integrity in Business and Professional Schools
9. Creating a Culture of Integrity
References
Index

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