Academic Honesty Gen 105

Academic Honesty Gen 105

Academic Honesty

The keyword I used to find the articles was academic honesty. The article’s title one was Academic Honesty and Online Courses by the authors Therese C. Grijalva, Clifford Nowell and Joes Kerkvlivet. The article was published in March 2006 and was peer-reviewed. I found both article’s in ebscohost.com. The other article was Academic Honesty Mirrors Integrity of the Profession, by the author Lori E. Shaw which was published February 2007.
Both articles were interesting. I realized that because of the growth in online education at the university level and because of the untested presumption that academic honesty will be greater in these classed than in the traditional classroom, this study fills an important void in the literature of academic dishonesty. To make comparisons with prior studies, online academic dishonesty includes cheating on exams or assignments, including plagiarism. Currently, evidence on academic dishonesty in online courses is nonexistent, but some claim that because students and faculty do not interact directly in such classes, online classes will invite more cheating than traditional classes. Some type of pedagogies may be more susceptible to one type of cheating. In online classes, planned cheating may be a much greater threat than panic cheating simply because circumstances engendering panic cheating may be relatively rare compared to a traditional classroom. Tests are most often completed by students in isolation and the opportunities for panic cheating diminished. In online classes, students are likely to be dispersed across broad geographic regions, and even if students are from the same local area they may never meet. Thus, online education may be less likely to develop a perception of a "cheating culture" as the norm. This may further retard cheating in an online setting. Collecting data on cheating behavior is fraught with difficulties, primarily due to the sensitive nature of cheating questions and...

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