Davis / Drinan / Gallant Cheating in School

What We Know and What We Can Do
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5683-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Cheating in School is the first book to present the researchon cheating in a clear and accessible way and provide practicaladvice and insights for educators, school administrators, and theaverage lay person.
* Defines the problems surrounding cheating in schools andproposes solutions that can be applied in all educational settings,from elementary schools to post-secondary institutions
* Addresses pressing questions such as "Why shouldn'tstudents cheat if it gets them good grades?" and "Whatare parents, teachers, businesses, and the government doing tounintentionally persuade today's student to cheat their waythrough school?"
* Describes short and long term deterrents that educators can useto foster academic integrity and make honesty more profitable thancheating
* Outlines tactics and strategies for educators, administrators,school boards, and parents to advance a new movement of academicintegrity instead of dishonesty

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Stephen F.

Drinan, Patrick F.

Gallant, Tricia Bertram

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen F. Davis is Emeritus Professor at Emporia StateUniversity. In 2002-2003 he served as the Knapp DistinguishedProfessor of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego. In2007 he was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree byMorningside College (Sioux City, IA). Currently he is theDistinguished Guest Professor at Morningside College and VisitingDistinguished Professor of Psychology at Texas Wesleyan University.Since 1966 he has published over 300 articles on various researchtopics and 27 textbooks and presented over 900 professional papers;the vast majority of these publications and presentations includestudent coauthors. He has served as President of APA Division 2,Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, SouthwesternPsychological Association, and Psi Chi (the National Honor Societyin Psychology). Additionally, he was selected as the firstrecipient of the Psi Chi Florence L. Denmark Faculty Advisor Award.He is a Fellow of APA Divisions 1 (General), 2 (Society for theTeaching of Psychology), 3 (Experimental), and 6 (BehavioralNeuroscience and Comparative Psychology).
Patrick F. Drinan, Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of San Diego, completed his Ph.D. in 1972 at theUniversity of Virginia, and it was there that he first developedhis interest in academic integrity. Drinan served as the dean ofthe College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diegofrom 1989-2007 and has been active in the Center for AcademicIntegrity since the mid-1990s. He has authored and co-authored manyarticles on academic integrity this last decade and has served as aconsultant on academic integrity at the university level. He is the2006 recipient of the Donald McCabe Award for Liftime Achievementin the firld of academic integrity.
Tricia Bertram Gallant serves as the Academic IntegrityCoordinator at the University of California, San Diego. In thiscapacity, she is responsible for managing the university'sPolicy on Integrity of Scholarship and its corresponding processes,educating the campus community on academic integrity, assistingfaculty in implementing short-term cheating deterrents, and workingwith key campus constituencies on long-term deterrents andinitiatives to create a culture of academic integrity on campus.Bertram Gallant has also been active with the Center for AcademicIntegrity since 2002, having served as a member of its Board ofDirectors and as the chair of its Advisory Council. She hasauthored and co-authored (with Patrick Drinan) many articles onacademic integrity, which have been published in The Journal ofHigher Education, The Review of Higher Education, NASPA, and theCanadian Journal of Higher Education, and is the sole author ofAcademic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching andLearning Imperative, published by Jossey-Bass in 2008.