Results of experiment showed that of the 80 per cent of students cheating, roughly half had a GPA of over 85. (SP)

Professional termpaper writing agencies are contributing to a society of functional illiterates. (HS)

Cheating can be stopped by removing the incentives for cheating such as grades and degree requirements. (HS)

Using an index of answer copying developed by Houston, it was found that rearranged questions alone did not reduce answer copying, whereas rearrangement of both questions and answers effectively eliminated detectable cheating. (Author)

Academic patterns of power (over students, curriculum, etc.), pretense (faculty claims about competence and experience), and piggybacking (conversion of institutions into education conglomerates) reveal some ethical issues. The patterns are deeply rooted, each with historical reason for being and current justification, yet each has outcomes that…

Assigned undergraduates to groups defined by combination of factors: opportunity to cheat, type of competition, subject Machiavellianism (Mach). Cheating occurred in opportunity to cheat, impersonal competition, high Mach group and in opportunity to cheat, personal competition, low Mach group. Extends research to situations where subjects cheated…

College students instructed to "fake good" on a test of moral reasoning were unable to do so, but they could lower their scores significantly when directed to. (Editor)

Academic dishonesty is on the rise. This article examines how we can teach students to honor the truth. Queens College is provided as an example of a school that takes a step beyond simple punishment by asking students to reflect on what they have done. (Contains 11 references.) (GCP)

A study of the cheating behavior of students in an upper-division mass-lecture business course found that only three percent plagiarized a library research assignment. The findings indicate a need to investigate what students do rather than what they say they do with regard to academic dishonesty. (MSE)

Identifies and defines the student practice of "fudging" which involves faking, fabricating, or stealing data. Identifies factors contributing to and motivations for this behavior in (n=6) high school students. (Author/MKR)

Two studies explored the relation of task understanding to performance in the Wason selection tasks, in which subjects successfully solve tasks involving either social exchange situations or cheating detection content and perspective. Findings indicate that previous results (Gigerenzer and Hug, 1992) could be attributed to three general properties…

Assessed preschoolers' moral motive strength or attribution of moral emotions to story characters. Also assessed temperamental inhibition and self-control. Children were provided with an opportunity to cheat when they felt they were unobserved. Results indicated that moral motive strength and inhibition predicted low cheating. (BC)

Points out how student cheating illustrates sound principles of teaching and learning, such as negotiation, quality production under time pressure, and collaborative problem solving. (SR)