Technology-Enabled Cheating: Responses and Considerations

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Our Goal

It is the work of true education to develop this power, to train the youth to be thinkers, and not mere reflectors (copy & pasters) of other men's thoughts.

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“True education means more than the pursual of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, mental, and spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and the higher joy of wider service in the world to come. In the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemption are one.” Ellen G. White, Education, p. 31

Cheating no longer carries the stigma that it used to. Less social disapproval coupled with increased competition for admission into universities and graduate schools has made students more willing to do whatever it takes to get the A.

Grades (or a diploma), rather than education, have become the major focus of many students.

The Challenge

http://www.academicintegrity.org/icai/integrity-3.php

The Challenge

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Some Current Cheating Methods

Your Turn

Custom EssaysCopy & Paste

Google Docs and Online Test Banks

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Students using clickers for their friends

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Technological Prevention

and Detection Measures

Your Turn

Anti-plagiarism Tools

www.scanmyessay.com

www.turnitin.com

www.mydropbox.com

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Cell Phone Jammers

transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf

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Instructional and Assessment Design Prevention Measures

Your Turn

• Write an essay about frogs.

• Write an essay on the causes of polar ice melting.

• Compare and contracts the environmental adaptations of frogs and another animal of your choice.

• Write a speech as a senator from your state, explaining the polar ice melting and what should be done about it.

Require Critical Thinking

http://www.chambersburg.k12.pa.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectionid=2365

http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

Assess often to check for understanding and reteach as needed

Require reflection at the end of each assignment. • What did you learn?• How could you solve

the problem in another way?

• What do you think of the concept learned?

• Model ethical conduct (references, image sources, etc)

• Doug Johnson’s resourceswww.doug-johnson.com/presentations/

• Teaching Students Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: A Technology Ethics Primer

• Beating the No U-Turn Syndrome: A new approach to copyright compliance

• The Fence or the Ambulance: Are You Punishing or Preventing Plagiarism in Your School?

Teach!!!

• Citing Electronic Resources (resources to teach citing)• http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic24a.htm

• Methods of attribution in social mediahttp://www.slideshare.net/courosa/academic-integrity-keynote-presentation

• Twitter: retweet• Blogs: trackback• Creative Commons/Flickr• Wiki history• Youtube Video responses

•Teach students how to cite material

Grade the process AND the product

AnnotatedBibliography

MultipleDrafts

Collaboration Cheating

Oral reports and random oral quizzes

Significant Writing on Tests

Prevent Plagiarism with Creative Assignments – Truman State University http://library.truman.edu/faculty-staff/class-examples.aspDesigning Plagiarism-Resistant Assignments – Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College www.umuc.edu/cip/vail/faculty/designing_assignments/assignments.html

On my honor, as an Eastview High School student, I will neither cheat nor plagiarize on any coursework.

www.district196.org/evhs/academics/honorcode/default.aspx

Honor code

• http://www.rubberpaw.com/integrity/• http://www.uwindsor.ca/aio/academic-integrity-poster-campaign• http://www.viu.ca/studentservices/documents/

AcademicIntegrityposterforweb.pdf

Questions?

Janine Lim, PhDjanine@andrews.edu

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• Couros, A. (2008). Academic integrity and the culture of sharing. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/academic-integrity-keynote-presentation

• International Center for Academic Integrity, http://www.academicintegrity.org/icai/home.php

• Moon, D., and Jenkins, R. (2011). Cheating: A legal primer toolkit for faculty and administrators. Available through Magna Publications.

• Parcella, K. (2008). Using technology to prevent plagiarism. http://www.slideshare.net/guestf17a2e/using-technology-to-detect-plagiarism-229376

• Strauss, V. (2011). New ways students cheat on tests. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/new-ways-students-cheat-on-tests/2011/09/28/gIQAPxFL6K_blog.html

• Yee, V. (2012). Stuyvesant students explain the how and why of cheating. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/education/stuyvesant-high-school-students-describe-rationale-for-cheating.html

• Young, J. (2012). Online classes see cheating go high-tech. http://chronicle.com/article/Cheating-Goes-High-Tech/132093/

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