{"id":30,"date":"2011-01-11T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-01-11T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:16:33","slug":"reducing-the-prevalence-of-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2011\/01\/11\/reducing-the-prevalence-of-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing the prevalence of cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is from the\u00a0October 2010 Turnitin Newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n

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October 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Turnitin Newsletter<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Reducing the Prevalence of Cheating<\/h2>\n

What steps can educators take to reduce the prevalence of cheating?<\/p>\n

\"ReducingRecent research published in Mid-Western Educational Researcher looked at high school students’ perceptions of cheating on tests, completing homework and writing reports. This study revealed that students tended to consider cheating activities as more significant with testing, less so with homework and least of all with writing reports. Students viewed cheating behaviors in the classroom more harshly than cheating behaviors outside the classroom. 54% of students surveyed did not identify plagiarism as a form of cheating and 50% admitted that they had used material either from the internet or someone else\u2019s ideas as their own and\/or plagiarized material in a written report.<\/p>\n

“Students generally understand what constitutes cheating, but they do it anyway,” said Kenneth Kiewra, professor of educational psychology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and one of the study’s authors. \u201cThey cheat on tests, homework assignments and when writing reports. In some cases, though, students simply don\u2019t grasp that some dishonest acts are cheating.\u201d The study recommends that educators use such information about cheating behavior to “seek ways to link students’ cheating perceptions with ethical guidelines to diminish cheating behaviors across academic tasks.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the complete article, “Cheating Perceptions and Prevalence Across Academic Settings” on pages 10 to 17 of the Mid-Western Educational Researcher’s Spring 2010 issue [pdf]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another recent article in Library Media Connection, “Stemming the Tide of Plagiarism: One Educator\u2019s View” by Kathy Lehman, summarized students’ comments and perspectives on cheating and offers some possible solutions. Student comments included:<\/p>\n