ERIC Number: EJ1057085
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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Student Equity: Discouraging Cheating in Online Courses
Michael, Timothy B.; Williams, Melissa A.
Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, v3 n2 2013
As online programs at conventional universities continue to expand, administrators and faculty face new challenges. Academic dishonesty is nothing new, but an online testing environment requires different strategies and tactics from what we have had to consider in the past. Our university has recently adapted successful face-to-face programs in financial management, both graduate and undergraduate, for delivery in a fully-online format. This paper discusses our experiences moving to a new environment, the challenges of student attempts to cheat and plagiarize, and techniques that we have found to prevent both cheating on high-stakes assessments and plagiarism. We present a number of essential ideas for creating an awareness of an honesty culture among both students and faculty, and we stress that the most important aspect of any campaign against academic dishonesty is prevention.
Descriptors: Cheating, Online Courses, Ethics, Computer Assisted Testing, Integrity, Student Behavior, Money Management, Plagiarism, High Stakes Tests, College Students, College Faculty, Prevention, Supervision, Computer Software, Item Banks, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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