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Psychology of academic cheating

Author: Eric M Anderman; Tamera Burton Murdock
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2007.
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"Academic cheating has long been a problem in educational institutions. The book discusses student cheating and teacher cheating, as well as the motivational profiles of students who report cheating. It also explores malleable definitions of dishonesty, whereby students frame cheating to believe it is less morally reprehensible. Understanding this reasoning better presents educators and psychologists with  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Psychology of academic cheating.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007
(OCoLC)607830472
Online version:
Psychology of academic cheating.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007
(OCoLC)609473669
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Eric M Anderman; Tamera Burton Murdock
ISBN: 0123725410 9780123725417
OCLC Number: 70174820
Description: xix, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Contributors --
Foreword / Alfie Kohn --
1. The psychology of academic cheating / Eric M. Anderman and Tamera B. Murdock --
pt. 1. The anatomy of cheaters --
2. Who are all these cheaters? : characteristics of academically dishonest students / Angela D. Miller, Tamera B. Murdock, Eric M. Anderman, and Amy L. Poindexter --
3. How do students cheat? / Linda Garavalia, Elizabeth Olson, Emily Russell, and Leslie Christensen --
pt. 2. Achievement motivation and cheating --
4. Interest and academic cheating / Gregory Schraw, Lori Olafson, Fred Kuch, Trish Lehman, Stephen Lehman, and Matthew T. McCrudden --
5. The effects of personal, classroom, and school goal structures on academic cheating / Eric M. Anderman --
6. Under pressure and underengaged : motivational profiles and academic cheating in high school / Jason M. Stephens and Hunter Gehlbach --
7. Applying decision theory to academic integrity decisions / David A. Rettinger. pt. 3. Moral and social motivations for dishonesty --
8. Reaping what we sow : cheating as a mechanism of moral engagement / Theresa A. Thorkildsen, Courtney J. Golant, and L. Dale Richesin --
9. The "social" side of social context : interpersonal and affiliative dimensions of students' experiences and academic dishonesty / Lynley H. Anderman, Tierra M. Freeman, and Christian E. Mueller --
10. Is cheating wrong? students' reasoning about academic dishonesty / Tamera B. Murdock and Jason M. Stephens --
pt. 4. Prevention and detection of cheating --
11. Cheating on tests : prevalence, detection, and implications for on-line testing / Walter M. Haney and Michael J. Clarke --
12. The pressure to cheat in a high-stakes testing environment / Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner --
Epilogue / David Callahan --
Index.
Responsibility: editors, Eric M. Anderman, Tamera B. Murdock.
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Looks at personality variables of those likely to cheat and also the circumstances that make one more likely than not to try cheating. This book examines the methodology of academic cheating including  Read more...

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