The Cheatability Factor

Jared Stein

Cheating?

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Prevalent?

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•Most faculty unaware

•75% of students admit it

•95% undetected

Dick, M., Sheard, J., Bareiss, C., Carter, J., Joyce, D., Harding, T., & Laxer, C. (2003, June). Addressing student cheating: definitions and solutions. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 35(2), 172-184.

Kaczmarczyk, L. (2001). Accreditation and student assessment in distance education: Why we all need to pay attention. Proc. 6th Conf. on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Canterbury, UK, 113-116.

Why?

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undergrads

U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (2002). The Condition of Education.

• % of nontraditional in DE

• Prediliction to cheat increases with age

margin = power / load

Day, M., & James, J. (1984). Margin and the adult learner. MPAEA Journal of Adult Education, 13(1), 1-5.

Easier online?

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On my watch?

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Cheatability

3 Affectors

TechnologyCourseDesign

Pedagogy

educational environment

measurable areas• General

• Online exams or quizzes

• Papers or projects

• Other*

http://www.uvsc.edu/disted/cheat/rubric.html

http://learningfield.org/cheat/

now what?

rubric

http://learningfield.org/cheat

more stuffflexknowlogy.learningfield.org/pres/cheatability

Marc Hugentoblermarc.hugentobler@uvu.edu

Twitter: diamond_mind

John Krutschjohn.krutsch@uvu.edu

Twitter: johnkrutsch

Jared Steinjared.stein@uvu.edu

Twitter: jstein

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Clark, Ruth Colvin, Frank Nguyen, & John Sweller. (2005). Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load. Pfeiffer.

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Day, M., & James, J. (1984). Margin and the adult learner. MPAEA Journal of Adult Education, 13(1), 1-5.

Dick, M., Sheard, J., Bareiss, C., Carter, J., Joyce, D., Harding, T., & Laxer, C. (2003, June). Addressing student cheating: definitions and solutions. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 35(2), 172-184.

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Hard, S. F., J. M. Conway, and A.C. Moran. 2006. Faculty and college student beliefs about the frequency of student academic misconduct. Journal of Higher Education 77 (6): 1058-80.

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Kaczmarczyk, L. (2001). Accreditation and student assessment in distance education: Why we all need to pay attention. Proc. 6th Conf. on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Canterbury, UK, 113-116.

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Krutsch, John & Sandy Mills-Alford. (2006). How to Cheat Online: Issues in Academic Honesty. WebCT.

Keyes, Ralph. (2004). The Post-Truth ERA: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press

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ReferencesRowe, N. Cheating in online student assessment: Beyond plagiarism. Online Journal of Distance

Learning Administration, 7(2). [Online]: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (2004). Participation in Adult Education and Life Long Learning 2000-01. nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/2004050.pdf.

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Part H, Title IV Accrediting Agency Recognition

Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008

“…institutions of higher education offering distance education programs have a process by which [they] establish that a student registered ... is the same student that participates in, completes, and receives credit for the course.

“… expect institutions … to have security mechanisms in place, such as ID numbers … required to be used each time the student participates in class time or coursework on-line. As new ID technologies are developed and become more sophisticated, less expensive and more mainstream… consider their use in the future.

“… do not intend that institutions use or rely on any technology that interferes with the privacy of the student … whichever method the institutions choose to utilize."

www.rules.house.gov