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- Title
Choosing Not to Cheat: A Framework to Assess Students' Rationales for Abiding by Academic Integrity Policies.
- Authors
Kolb, Kenneth H.; Longest, Kyle C.; Singer, Alexa J.
- Abstract
Writing intensive first-year seminars are well situated within the curriculum to teach about issues like cheating and plagiarism. Although most research on academic integrity focuses on how--and how much--students cheat, we take a different approach. We assess whether participation in writing intensive first-year seminars produces measurable changes in students' rationales for choosing not to cheat. Relying upon data collected via pre and post-test in-depth interviews, we propose a framework to measure these changes that is grounded in students' accounts of how they negotiated real-life opportunities to cheat on campus. In general, we find that writing intensive first-year seminars produce no positive qualitative changes in students' rationales for choosing not to cheat. In the conclusion, we offer a new perspective on the possible consequences of creating "cheat proof " tests and assignments on students' ethical development.
- Subjects
SCHOLARLY method ethics; CURRICULUM; PLAGIARISM; STUDENT cheating; MORAL development; STUDENT ethics
- Publication
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1931-4744
- Publication type
Article