Annotated Bibliography: Academic Honesty
Anderman, E. & Murdock, T. (2007). “Psychology of Academic Cheating”. New York, NY:
Academic Press
The study report assesses the status of cheating in schools and asserts that academic dishonesty is equally common at all levels beginning from elementary, high school, college and surprisingly in graduate schools. According to the conclusions of the report, instructors are at times participants in academic irregularities in order to boost the student performance in high-caliber rankings. The report gives a psychology of cheating and cites learning, development and motivation as the basis of cheating among students. In learning psychology, students cheat as a short-cut for cognition. As regards development, cheating happens as a result of student’s cognitive ability, and social development. In relation to motivation, students stated that they cheat to achieve different outcomes e.g. higher grades and to build self image among peers.
Blakesley, D. & Loogeveen, J. (2008). “The Thomson Handbook”. Boston, MA: Thomson
Wadsworth
The book focuses on plagiarism and provides ways in which sources of information should be cited in order to avoid plagiarism. The book defines most common factors that constitute plagiarism in different context of writing.
Blum, D. (2009). “My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture”. New York, NY: Cornell
University Press
Blum analyzes the causative factors for plagiarism among the college students, explains the complexity of the issue of plagiarism, and recommends solutions. Her opinions are informed by ethnographic studies that she carried out in 2005 and 2007 among groups of the University of Norte Dame students. Blum found out that plagiarism occurs primarily because students do not understand how to make proper citation of sources. In addition she offers solution in form of education and use of writing software.
Bruce, M. (2007). “The Academic Citizen”. New York, NY: Routledge
The authors of the book coined the phrase academic citizenship and define it in relation to the university academic environment. They use the term as a synonym to academic integrity. The book defines academic citizenship, to refer to a code of ethics and behavior expected of a student. Defining practices include academic honesty, responsible attendance of classes, and observation of the princi0ple of discipline as set out by the institution (p.113).
Cavalier, R. (2005). “The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives”. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press
The book highlights academic integrity underlining the important factors that together define it. These are honesty, fairness, trust, responsibility and respect.
Demiray, U. & Sharma, R. (2009). “Ethical Practices and Implications in Distance Learning”
Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference
The book talks about moral responsibility of educators and students in curbing academic and professional abuses of academic responsibility and credibility. It highlights the relevance of integrity, faithfulness, decency, transparency, respect and other social values in education.
DeNeef, A. & Goodwin, C. (2006). “The Academic Handbook”. Durham, NC: DukeUniversity
Press
The book is a summary of the practice of teaching and learning and focuses on issues of academic honesty in research defining practices such as plagiarism as the main problems in learning.
Etter, S., Cramer, J. & Finn, S. (2006). “Origins of Academic Dishonesty”. Journal of Research
on Technology in Education, 39(2): 133-155
The article is based on the popular belief that students use technology to evade academic responsibility. It expounds on the possibility of technological influence on the propagation of dishonesty among students. In addition it looks at the contribution of personally issues to ethical development of persons. It majors on copying text from websites and pasting them on assignments without attribution. The papers shares comparative research findings that were obtained from two institutions one church based college and the other research university. Students from church-based college perceived cheating behaviors based on technology as more serious than activities involving use of drugs, alcohol, and sex.
Harwood, P. & Asal, V. (2007). “Educating the First Digital Generation”. Westport, CT: Praeger
Publishers
The book defines education n the digital generation and expounds on technological factors that constitutes cheating in modern schools. The book uses the term cheating in broad sense and defines it as intentional and attempted use of prohibited material, information or study tools for purpose of academics. The book gives three forms of academic cheating as plagiarism, fabrication and facilitation of academic dishonesty.
Hinnman, L. (2000). “Contemporary Moral Issues”. New York: Prentice Hall
Hinnman demonstrates how academic honesty can bring important benefits to both the student and the institution. He outlines values that defines integrity and describes the way that the learning environment should be structured to facilitate development of academic integrity among students.
Jones, L. (2011). “Academic Cheating and Academic Dishonesty (rev. ed.)”. Melbourne, FL:
Florida Institute of Technology
This is a handbook prepared by Lars Jones for the faculty and students of Florida Institute of Technology students with a clear definition of academic honesty. The book provides a descriptive outline of common scenarios of academic dishonesty with a principle focus on plagiarism. The prime objective for the development of this guide was to help students understand the rationale for academic integrity. Plagiarism, cheating and academic fraud are well defined alongside possible penalties.
Kaufman, E. (2008). “Moral and Ethical Issues Related to Academic Dishonesty on College
Campuses”. Journal of College & Character, 9(5): 1-8
In the article, Heather Kaufman describes integrity issues in college campuses and analyzes the trend right from high school through to campus stating that students actually develop the habit of cheating at a lower level of education, most notably in high school, and the vice continues in campuses. Several universities have designed and implemented ethics code that holds individual student who participate in cheating responsible. The article demonstrates how personal and situational factors, technological advances, and factors outside of the educational environment in school play a role in development of the habit of cheating in individuals and groups of students. Kaufman recommends that teaching students to develop principle values and ethical behavior should be prioritized because it influences long-term habits development among students.
Keith-Spiegel, P. (2002). “The Ethics of Teaching”. Mahwah, NJ: LawrenceErlbaum
Associates, Inc.
This is a case book that illustrates through examples how lack of academic honesty affects teachers emotionally. Also it highlights how it is difficult to verify the evidence of dishonesty because it is in most cases not clear-cut.
Kraut, R. (2007). “What is Good and Why?: The Ethics of Wellbeing”. New York, NY: Harvard
College
The book describes how ethics codes and rules should be used by institutions to administer academic honesty. Kraut explains that violations of rules and codes must be prevented through strict application of punishment.
Lathrop, A. & Foss, K. (2000). “Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era”
Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited
Lathrop and Foss write that 44% of students participate in cheating every academic year. Cheating is a habit and is highly significant in schools. Students cheat because of the ease that comes with advancement in technologies. The current situation is such that only 10% of those that cheat are caught and often are not punished adequately. The book discusses forms of high-tech cheating (e.g. use of calculators and computer to save formulas). Focus is also placed on electronic plagiarism (e.g. sale of research papers online). Parents and teachers should be more vigilant in controlling the habits of students.
Lau, L., Caracciolo, B., Roddenberry, S. & Scroggins, A. (2012). “College Students’ Perception
of Ethics”. Journal of Academics and Business Ethics, 5(1): 1-13
This study paper was written to give study findings of a research conducted among college students to determine the perceptions of ethics. The study analyzed the influence of technology, the perceived importance of values, ethical campus environment, attitudes towards cheating and influence of education and instructors on student ethics development. Technology, campuses environment, faculty instructions were rated by students as useful in shaping ethics. However, students do not perceive the necessity to report academic dishonesty.
Lucas, S. & Bernstein, D. (2008). “Teaching Psychology: A Step by Step Guide”. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
This is a book that describes in several chapters the best-practices of teaching. Lucas and Bernstein give an analysis of how schools can a system of environment which perceives academic dishonesty as an unacceptable social practice. Academic interference, fraud, fabrication, plagiarism and cheating are forms of academic dishonesty as classified in the book (p146-147). The book also borrows from the definitions of academic dishonesty and ethical codes of conduct developed by the University of Illinois.
Rhoten, S. (1999). “Academic Dishonesty”. Los Angeles, CA: Center for Excellence in
Teaching, University of Southern California
The paper defines academic dishonesty, and gives important tips for instructors for the prevention of the practice of cheating by students. Cheating, plagiarism, dishonest behavior, and collusion are activities that define dishonesty in academics. Several examples are given for practices in each category named above. Academic dishonesty goes beyond examination misconduct and includes activities that do not reflect integrity in the education process. Instructors should provide a clear definition of dishonest activities and help students in understanding good practices.
Roosevelt University. (2012). “Academic Integrity: A Guide for Students”. Chicago, IL: Author
This publication is an academic guideline for students of the University of Roosevelt. It outlines student practices that falls short of integrity and provides the nature of punishments which follow academic misconduct. The handbook singles out cheating, recycling of work, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration or collusion and fabrication as the forms of activities that contribute to lack of academic honesty.
Solomon, A., Wilson, G., Taylor, T. & Tyler, L. (2012). “100% Student Success”. Boston, MA:
Wadsworth
Chapter six of the book (p.117) outlines ethical and legal issues in the learning environment. Academic honesty is described as the first among many issues in academic environment.
References
Anderman, E. & Murdock, T. (2007). “Psychology of Academic Cheating”. New York, NY:
Academic Press
Blakesley, D. & Loogeveen, J. (2008). “The Thomson Handbook”. Boston, MA: Thomson
Wadsworth
Blum, D. (2009). “My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture”. New York, NY: Cornell
University Press
Bruce, M. (2007). “The Academic Citizen”. New York, NY: Routledge
Cavalier, R. (2005). “The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives”. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press
Demiray, U. & Sharma, R. (2009). “Ethical Practices and Implications in Distance Learning”
Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference
DeNeef, A. & Goodwin, C. (2006). “The Academic Handbook”. Durham, NC: DukeUniversity
Press
Etter, S., Cramer, J. & Finn, S. (2006). “Origins of Academic Dishonesty”. Journal of Research
on Technology in Education, 39(2): 133-155
Harwood, P. & Asal, V. (2007). “Educating the First Digital Generation”. Westport, CT: Praeger
Publishers
Hinnman, L. (2000). “Contemporary Moral Issues”. New York: Prentice Hall
Jones, L. (2011). “Academic Cheating and Academic Dishonesty (rev. ed.)”. Melbourne, FL:
Florida Institute of Technology
Kaufman, E. (2008). “Moral and Ethical Issues Related to Academic Dishonesty on College
Campuses”. Journal of College & Character, 9(5): 1-8
Keith-Spiegel, P. (2002). “The Ethics of Teaching”. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, Inc.
Kraut, R. (2007). “What is Good and Why?: The Ethics of Wellbeing”. New York, NY: Harvard
College
Lathrop, A. & Foss, K. (2000). “Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era”
Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited
Lau, L., Caracciolo, B., Roddenberry, S. & Scroggins, A. (2012). “College Students’ Perception
of Ethics”. Journal of Academics and Business Ethics, 5(1): 1-13
Lucas, S. & Bernstein, D. (2008). “Teaching Psychology: A Step by Step Guide”. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
Rhoten, S. (1999). “Academic Dishonesty”. Los Angeles, CA: Center for Excellence in
Teaching, University of Southern California
Roosevelt University. (2012). “Academic Integrity: A Guide for Students”. Chicago, IL: Author
Solomon, A., Wilson, G. & Tyler, L. (2012). “100% Student Success”. Boston, MA: Wadsworth
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