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Daniel Pizzolato; Kris Dierickx – Research Ethics, 2024
Responsible research practices are critical to maintaining integrity in research and the provision of institutional trainings is an important means of promoting research integrity. However, studies show contrasting results on the efficacy of institutional training and that these approaches may not be fully effective in promoting research integrity…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Research, Ethics, Integrity
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Jennifer Riad – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2023
Throughout the history of academics, cheating in various forms has coincided, evolving alongside university advancements. This paper explores the concept of academic dishonesty as a critical issue facing higher education in a modern context, establishes the cause of the problem, and concludes with potential solutions. The idea of academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Cheating, Plagiarism
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Conroy, James C. – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
This introduction attempts to draw together the various threads which comprise this special issue and place them in the context of recent disruptions to the political order occasioned by the rise of populist politics, the resurgence of widespread racial tensions in a number of polities and the emergence of a global pandemic. Central to the…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Ethical Instruction, Political Attitudes
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Robinson, Jessica A.; Glanzer, Perry L. – College Student Journal, 2017
McCabe, Butterfield, & Treviño (2012) recently proposed a model for helping universities cultivate a moral culture of academic integrity. This qualitative study examined how a national sample of 75 students perceived the moral culture within their university using the McCabe et al. model as a basis for analysis. The analysis revealed that…
Descriptors: Integrity, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, College Students
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Clark, Shelby; Soutter, Madora – Journal of Character Education, 2016
Cheating is highly prevalent in American high school students and across the globe. Although numerous approaches are in place to combat this issue, most character education approaches have focused primarily on fostering moral integrity (a strength of moral character). Here, we argue that a broad character education approach to addressing cheating…
Descriptors: Values Education, Cheating, Integrity, Intervention
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Stephens, Jason M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Epidemic is an apt adjective for describing the problem of academic dishonesty. When asked if they have cheated in the past year, a "disproportionately large number" (i.e., the majority) of secondary and tertiary students in the United States (and in every other country in which it's been studied) report having done so. The problem of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Incidence, Moral Development
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Görgüt, Ilyas; Tutkun, Erkut – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Values education is very important for supporting and directing the attitudes and behaviors that brings from birth and changes by the effects of surroundings. The most effective people to provide this support after family are the teachers, especially the physical education teachers who are constantly communicating with the students. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Values Education, Qualitative Research
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Callina, Kristina Schmid; Burkhard, Brian; Schaefer, Hillary S.; Powers, Jeremiah; Murray, Elise D.; Kobylski, Gerald; Ryan, Dianne M.; Kelly, Dennis; Matthews, Michael D.; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Moral Education, 2019
Research about the structure of character has largely assessed purported universal attributes. However, character develops within specific social, cultural and institutional contexts. As part of the first wave of a longitudinal study (Project Arete) of character development among cadets at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Longitudinal Studies, Military Training, Higher Education
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O'Neill, Nancy – New Directions for Higher Education, 2013
This chapter highlights good practices and lessons learned for infusing personal responsibility--striving for excellence, cultivating academic integrity, and developing competence in ethical and moral reasoning and action--as outcomes of college.
Descriptors: Student Responsibility, Educational Quality, Integrity, Competence
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Apostolou, Barbara; Dull, Richard B.; Schleifer, Lydia L. F. – Accounting Education, 2013
Faculty tasked with revising the accounting curriculum to incorporate an ethics component may benefit from the experiences reported in the literature. We construct and describe a framework for the pedagogy of accounting ethics based upon extant literature. Our purpose is to present the cumulative contributions to the literature in a fashion that…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, College Faculty, Curriculum Development
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Seider, Scott; Novick, Sarah; Gomez, Jessica – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This study compared the effects of emphasizing moral character development or performance character development at three high-performing, high-poverty urban middle schools. Performance character consists of the qualities that allow individuals to regulate their thoughts and actions in ways that support achievement in a particular endeavor. Moral…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Poverty, High Achievement
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Stoll, Sharon Kay – Journal of College and Character, 2012
What is loyalty and why is it problematic in athletics? The author discusses the ethical lapses that can occur when a powerful social value, "loyalty," trumps individuals' ability to make moral decisions. She argues that education about morality should be a necessary part of sport education and explains how moral education programs can make a…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Physical Education, Athletes, Social Values
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Liddell, Debora L.; Cooper, Diane L. – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
In this article, the authors lay out the basic foundational concepts and assumptions that will guide the reader through the chapters to come as the chapter authors explore "how" moral growth can be facilitated through various initiatives on the college campus. This article presents a brief review of the theoretical frameworks that provide the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, Outcomes of Education, Moral Development
Carr-Chellman, Davin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This is a study of adult ethical development in Christian congregations. Using an empirical hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, this study examined how five pastors understand and encourage ethical development, developing an in-depth analysis and interpretation of their perceptions of the phenomenon of adult ethical development. Two primary…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Integrity, Cognitive Psychology, Ethics
Greer, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The public expects its educational leaders--from instructional leaders and principals to college administrators and deans--to be moral exemplars. Nowhere is moral behavior more central to the central mission of teaching and learning than in the realm of academic integrity, where decisions are made daily about grading, testing, promotion,…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Problem Solving, Authors, Moral Issues
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