Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban…

Cheating, operationally defined as the falsification of scores on a word construction task, was found, as predicted, to be influenced by achievement anxiety and knowledge of the performance of a peer reference group in 111 high school subjects (Ss). However, achievement anxiety was positively correlated with cheating only when knowledge of…

Significant cheating occurred in the group who had initially been successful, but then failed; suggesting that failure following initial success may be more repugnant than failure following initial failure. (Author/DEP)

Irregularities regarding grants-in-aid assistance to athletes at the University of Illinois in the 1960s caused a scandal, which is described in this article. The results of the scandal and a discussion of intercollegiate athletics follow.(MT)

A statistical test for the detection of answer copying on multiple-choice tests is presented. The test is based on the idea that answers of examinees to test items may be the results of three possible processes: (1) knowing; (2) guessing; and (3) copying. Examinees who do not have access to the answers of other examinees can arrive at their…

Describes a study investigating the usefulness of crib notes in taking exams in undergraduate courses. Results showed little apparent benefit to the student except in remembering lists and definitions. (CK)

Faculty perceptions of 28 academic behaviors were explored using multidimensional scaling of pairwise similarity ratings, a methodology that does not impose the researchers' a priori conceptions of the relevant dimension. Results indicated that faculty perceive academically dishonest behavior in two dimensions: seriousness and paper versus exams.…

This book is a practical text that provides concrete solutions to problems related to academic dishonesty with an overview of research and theory and strategies for preventing, confronting, and managing the problem. (SLD)

This book presents what is known about cheating and is a strong foundation for anyone interested in developing or reevaluating policies and procedures to address the issue of cheating on tests. (SLD)

Proposed two new indices to detect answer copying on a multiple choice test and conducted a simulation study to investigate the usefulness of both indexes. Discusses conditions under which the proposed indexes can be useful. (SLD)

Examined reactions of 776 students to witnessing cheating, their attitudes toward the offending student, and their attitudes toward academic dishonesty in general. Findings suggest that the creation of academic dishonesty code requiring students to report instances of academic dishonesty apparently did not work. Students preferred to handle…

A teacher brings you a paper he suspects is not the student's own work, and a google search confirms it was copied right off a web page. Intellectual honesty issues are impossible to duck in the library, but plagiarism lessons are often met with yawns and eye rolls from students.