Web Directory

» ABC News: A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools
   Result of a six-month investigation.
   http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132376&page=1

» ACM Ubiquity - In Defense of Cheating
   Donald A. Norman argues that cheating is a natural response to much of what the education system thinks is important.
   http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i11_norman.html

» ACM Ubiquity - PCs in the Classroom & Open Book Exams
   Open-book exams compared/contrasted with open-internet exams and issues related to cheating via computer. Article by Evan Golub, Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland.
   http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i9_golub.html

» Beating the Cheating
   Librarian-designed webquest to teach teachers about the problem of internet-facilitated cheating and plagiarism.
   http://www.lerc.educ.ubc.ca/LERC/students/4771999S/LIBE1/MD/

» Cheating with Technology
   A student who pulls out a camera phone during the test can photograph the entire test in seconds.
   http://www.glendale.edu/chaparral/mar04/cheatingtechnology.htm

» Cheating: An Epidemic
   Short article about academic cheating from about.com
   http://privateschool.about.com/cs/forteachers/a/cheating.htm

» EducationGuardian.co.uk - The exam system that puts temptation in teachers' way
   The UK system of national testing for 11-year-olds puts too much trust in individual teachers to police themselves.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/oct/28/primaryeducation.schools

» EducationGuardian.co.uk - Widespread cheating devalues school tests
   Cheating in national tests for 11-year-olds is so widespread that school league tables can no longer be trusted, a Guardian investigation has found.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/oct/28/schools.primaryeducation1

» L.A. Times - Scandal in Organic Semiconductor Development
   "Prominent Physicist Fired for Faking Data Research: Bell Labs says scientist 'recklessly' misrepresented work on microprocessors."
   http://www.drproctor.com/os/latimesschon.htm

» Lucent - Research Review
   Results of inquiry into the validity of certain physics research papers from Bell Labs. Independent committee finds one researcher committed scientific misconduct and clears the 19 other authors investigated.
   http://publish.aps.org/reports/lucentrep.pdf

» On Intellectual Honesty
   "While it is clearly expected that each student shall exhibit honesty in taking exams and in representing the authorship of his/her work, there are other dimensions to intellectual honesty that impinge on every aspect of thinking and communicating."
   http://www.ics.uci.edu/~arvo/honesty.html

» Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
   A production of the Rutgers University Libraries. An interactive lesson designed to teach students about avoiding infractions of academic integrity policies and instances of plagiarism. Requires the Flash plugin; best accessed over a fast connection.
   http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html

» Students overlook 'trivial' cheating - The Duke Chronicle
   Duke students aren't seeing all cheating as bad.
   http://dukechronicle.com/node/145990

» TOPICS Online Magazine for ESL - Academic Dishonesty (Cheating)
   Tutorial of sorts intended primarily for adult ESL students. Includes vocabulary and idioms, photo essay demonstrating cheating techniques, hypothetical situations, a poll, and real-life stories.
   http://www.topics-mag.com/edition13/cheating-page.htm

» The Claremont Institute: The Fall of an Academic Fraud
   Now-former Emory University professor and author manipulated and/or falsified information in order to back assertions made in the book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture."
   http://www.claremont.org/publications/precepts/id.16/precept_detail.asp

» The Infinite Mind: Cheating
   Summary of and a link to a radio broadcast discussing cheating in schools, in academia, by primates in general, and in relationships.
   http://www.lcmedia.com/mind452.htm

» Tools for Teaching - Preventing Academic Dishonesty
   Ideas are designed to help impart to students the values of academic honesty and to help set policies that encourage academic integrity.
   http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html

» Unconventional University Diplomas from Online Vendors: Buying a Ph.D. From a University That Doesn't Exist
   7.6 megabyte pdf file. George Gollin explains how he followed up on an ad that popped up on his computer about getting a "diploma within days." Includes many screenshots of what he learned.
   http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/diploma_mills.pdf

» University of Manitoba - Cheating, Plagiarism & Fraud
   Material to help if you have been accused of or if you suspect someone else of committing an academic offense; and material help understand academic offenses better in order to inadvertently avoid committing them.
   http://www.umanitoba.ca/student/advocacy/cheating_plagiarism_fraud.shtml

» University of Manitoba - Test Your Integrity IQ
   11 school-related ethics questions with an answer key.
   http://www.umanitoba.ca/student/advocacy/academic_honesty_quiz.shtml

» Wired News: New Toys for Cheating Students
   Wireless devices and palm-sized computers provide many possibilities for cheating in testing situations.
   http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/08/38066

» Wired News: Students Called on SMS Cheating
   Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers. Another six students were implicated in the case.
   http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2003/01/57484

» iamnext.com - Cheating in School and Life: What to Do?
   Editorial about how cheating of all types appears to be increasing in the U.S.
   http://www.iamnext.com/academics/beyond/cheating.html