Title

Student Perceptions of Institutional and Instructor Based Techniques for Dealing with Academic Dishonesty

Author Info

Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University
Trevor S. Harding, Kettering UniversityFollow
Susan M. Montgomery, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Nicholas H. Steneck, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Eric Dey, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Recommended Citation

Presented at the Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference: Boston, MA, November 6, 2002, pages S1H-9-S1H-14.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Trevor Harding was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2002.1158644.

Abstract

Research suggests that a large percentage of engineering students engage in some form of academic dishonesty. To investigate this very serious concern, the authors have undertaken a research project on the Perceptions and Attitudes toward Cheating among Engineering Students (PACES). The premise of this research is that a combination of pressures, rather than malicious motivations, account for most student cheating. This paper focuses on a portion of the PACES survey; student opinions on what actions might prevent cheating. The authors examined data collected from approximately 350 engineering and pre-engineering undergraduate students at 5 institutions. In the survey, the students were presented with 23 institutional and instructor based actions and asked to comment on whether itch actions would prevent them from cheating if they might have been inclined to cheat under other circumstances. Student responses to those actions along with subsequent statistical analysis are reported. Practical implementations of several student-identified techniques are then discussed.

Disciplines

Materials Science and Engineering

Copyright

2002 IEEE.

Publisher statement

Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.