Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating: Promoting Integrity in Assessment

by Gregory J. Cizek

Overview

This user-friendly, authoritative guide for cheating features specific techniques for identifying, deterring, and responding to this detriment to learning and assessment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761946557
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Series:	Experts In Assessment Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gregory J. Cizek is Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His background in the field of educa­tional assessment includes five years as a manager of licensure and certification testing programs for American College Testing (ACT) in Iowa City, Iowa, and 15 years of teaching experience at the col­lege level, where his teaching assignments have consisted primarily of graduate courses in educational testing, research methods, and statistics. He is the author of over 200 books, chapters, articles, conference papers, and reports. His books include Handbook of Educational Policy (Academic Press, 1998); Cheating on Tests: How to Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999); Setting Performance Standards: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001); and Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating (Corwin Press, 2003). Dr. Cizek has served as an elected member and vice president of a local school board in Ohio, and he currently works with several states, organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education on tech­nical and policy issues related to large-scale standards-based testing programs for students in grades K–12. He began his career as an ele­mentary school teacher in Michigan, where he taught second and fourth grades.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction
Preface
About the Author
Chapter 1. What Do We Know About Cheating in the Classroom?
Chapter 2. Why Is Cheating a Problem?
Chapter 3. How Does Cheating Occur?
Chapter 4. How Can Cheating Be Detected and Addressed?
Chapter 5. How Can Cheating Be Prevented?
Chapter 6. What Are the Next Steps?
Resource A: Glossary
Resource B: Resources Used to Cheat
Resource C: Resources to Help Deter Cheating
Resource D: Sample Cheating Policies and Honor Codes
References
Subject Index
Author Index