In April 1974, allegations were made that students, teachers, and the general public had access to the New York Citywide Reading Test prior to its administration, and the results, therefore, were invalid. In the face of these allegations, New York City developed a strategy for the administration of a secure test: a test never before available in…

Multiple-choice examination answer copying was indexed by a comparison of the numbers of items answered incorrectly, and in the same way, as adjacent and distant classmates. Significant copying occurred in an experiment where test performance contributed to course grade, but it did not occur when the test did not affect the grade. (Editor/LBH)

Academic cheating behavior by university students was surveyed using the randomized response technique and by conventional anonymous questionnaire methods. Underreporting is concluded to be a serious problem with anonymous questionnaires. (Author/MLW)

A technique used in an undergraduate psychology class to reduce student incentives to fake data as they undertook a research project concerning marriage relationships is described. An evaluation of the technique suggested that it works. (RM)

The prevalence of cheating in the schools, student attitudes toward cheating, and the social mores excusing cheating are considered in this article, and suggestions that can be followed by parents, students, and teachers to eliminate cheating are offered. (PGD)

Presents the results of a survey of 194 faculty and 314 undergraduate students regarding their experience with academic misconduct. Findings include the following: faculty and students differed significantly in their definitions of 24 of the 36 described behaviors, and 82 percent of the surveyed undergraduate students admitted to engaging in some…

Four teachers discuss benefits of humor and the disadvantages of sarcasm. Includes a humorous piece on teaching cheating in the classroom. (EL)

Examined whether moral behavior and moral thought can be affected by discussion of Kohlberg-type moral dilemmas. Students (N=96) engaged in one of three discussion situations and a free-recall task. Results supported Kohlberg's suggestions that moral behavior as well as thought can sometimes be taught. (JAC)

In an earlier study, I. Newman and D. Waechter (1999) investigated graduate education students' perceptions and attitudes toward cheating in scientific research. A questionnaire was developed that was based on reactions and concerns related to cheating behavior seen in a public television video about faking scientific data. This study examined the…

Females cheated in response to consistently unfavorable self-perceptions, while males were influenced by immediate situational factors. (Authors)

The study sought: (1) to assess incidence of cheating in large high school sample; (2) to evaluate relationship between socioeconomic level and cheating; (3) to ascertain whether teachers have the ability to predict cheating behavior; and (4) to replicate previous findings regarding the relationship between cheating and both grades and IQ. (Author)

Discusses and tabulates survey results of 1,629 northeast Georgia students. Speculates that fear of failure, need for status may be causes. (CJ)

As a student at Mercer University (Georgia) from 1888-91, William Kilpatrick observed that teachers and pupils stood in opposition to each other and that cheating was a "natural process." The granting of honors was viewed by Kilpatrick as detrimental and as a way of pitting students against each other. Kilpatrick also advocated the…

About 75 percent of those surveyed had cheated in college. Sex, year in school, grade point average, academic major, fraternity-sorority membership, and extracurricular participation were significantly related to cheating. Conclusions supported the importance of traditional explanatory variables and suggested an interpretation based on attribution…