Summer Reading: Research-Based Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity (Essays on Teaching Excellence)
Research-Based Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity
Michele DiPietro, Kennesaw State University
The POD Network Teaching Excellence Essay Series, 2009-10
From the essay: “A cursory glance at the literature on cheating paints a bleak picture. In the past decades, the prevalence of cheating has hovered at discouragingly high level, with about 75% of students admitting to some sort of cheating, and with peaks of over 90% in some revalence studies. Given these figures, where does a well intentioned instructor start? A good place to start untangling this complex problem is to understand it better. Academic dishonest behaviors vary in their frequency, seriousness, and motivations behind them, but they have been extensively researched, and we can abstract general principles to conceptualize this problem. Once we understand the dynamics better, we can try to adopt contextualized approaches that get at the root of the problem instead of stopgap measures.”
You can read the entire article or browse CFT resources on academic integrity including our teaching guide on Cheating & Plagiarism.
Essays on Teaching Excellence is a series of eight short and succinct scholarly essays published by the POD Network on an annual basis, free of charge. The essays present innovative viewpoints on college and university instruction. Written in concise and non-technical language, and supported by research, the essays seek to assist instructors in reflecting upon and refining their practice of teaching to achieve the results they seek – students learning to the best of their abilities. You can view the archive of these essays on the POD website.
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