Book description
Cheating in School
is the first book to present the research on cheating in a clear and
accessible way and provide practical advice and insights for educators,
school administrators, and the average lay person.
- Defines the problems surrounding cheating in schools and proposes
solutions that can be applied in all educational settings, from
elementary schools to post-secondary institutions
- Addresses pressing questions such as “Why shouldn't students cheat
if it gets them good grades?” and “What are parents, teachers,
businesses, and the government doing to unintentionally persuade
today's student to cheat their way through school?”
- Describes short and long term deterrents that educators can use to
foster academic integrity and make honesty more profitable than cheating
- Outlines tactics and strategies for educators, administrators,
school boards, and parents to advance a new movement of academic
integrity instead of dishonesty
Stephen F. Davis
is Emeritus Professor at Emporia State University. In 2002-2003 he
served as the Knapp Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at the
University of San Diego. In 2007 he was awarded the Doctor of Humane
Letters degree by Morningside College (Sioux City, IA). Currently he is
the Distinguished Guest Professor at Morningside College and Visiting
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Texas Wesleyan University.
Since 1966 he has published over 300 articles on various research topics
and 27 textbooks and presented over 900 professional papers; the vast
majority of these publications and presentations include student
coauthors. He has served as President of APA Division 2, Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Southwestern Psychological
Association, and Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology).
Additionally, he was selected as the first recipient of the Psi Chi
Florence L. Denmark Faculty Advisor Award. He is a Fellow of APA
Divisions 1 (General), 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology), 3
(Experimental), and 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology).
Patrick F. Drinan, Professor of Political Science at the
University of San Diego, completed his Ph. D. in 1972 at the
University of Virginia, and it was there that he first developed his
interest in academic integrity. Drinan served as the dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego from
1989-2007 and has been active in the Center for Academic Integrity
since the mid-1990s. He has authored and co-authored many articles on
academic integrity this last decade and has served as a consultant on
academic integrity at the university level. He is the 2006 recipient
of the Donald McCabe Award for Liftime Achievement in the firld of
academic integrity.
Tricia Bertram Gallant serves as the Academic Integrity
Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego. In this
capacity, she is responsible for managing the university's Policy on
Integrity of Scholarship and its corresponding processes, educating
the campus community on academic integrity, assisting faculty in
implementing short-term cheating deterrents, and working with key
campus constituencies on long-term deterrents and initiatives to
create a culture of academic integrity on campus. Bertram Gallant has
also been active with the Center for Academic Integrity since 2002,
having served as a member of its Board of Directors and as the chair
of its Advisory Council. She has authored and co-authored (with
Patrick Drinan) many articles on academic integrity, which have been
published in The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher
Education, NASPA, and the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, and is
the sole author of Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A
Teaching and Learning Imperative, published by Jossey-Bass in 2008.
