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Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating

Promoting Integrity in Assessment

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By: Gregory J. Cizek

No-nonsense, practical advice for identifying and deterring cheating!

This user-friendly, authoritative guide is a one-stop resource for everything K-12 teachers, principals, school board members, and policy makers need to know about this ever-present detriment to learning and assessment—from what constitutes cheating, to future steps on how it can be eradicated. Highlights of the book include:

High-tech sources that aid students in cheating and plagiarizing, or aid educators in combating the problem
Sample forms, school policies and honor codes
Characteristics of students and classrooms associated with cheating
Simple classroom changes that can prevent cheating
Specific techniques for responding to cheating
Questions for Further Discussion in each chapter

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761946557
Published By: Corwin
Series: Experts In Assessment Series
Year: 2003
Page Count: 168
Publication date: March 21, 2003

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No-nonsense, practical advice for identifying and deterring cheating!

Who cheats and why? How do they cheat? What are the consequences? What are the ways of stopping it before it starts? These critical questions and more are comprehensively answered by esteemed researcher Gregory J. Cizek in this user-friendly, authoritative guide. By offering invaluable insight and straightforward strategies on how to deal with, detect, and discourage cheating, this practical resource will help you achieve more accurate assessments, which are so important in the current accountability-driven educational climate.

Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating is a one-stop resource for everything educators need to know about this ever-present detriment to learning and assessment—from what constitutes cheating, to future steps on how it can be eradicated.

Highlights of the book include:

High-tech sources that aid students in cheating and plagiarizing, or aid educators in combating the problem
Sample forms, school policies, and honor codes
Characteristics of students and classrooms associated with cheating
Simple classroom changes that can prevent cheating
Specific techniques for responding to cheating
Questions for Further Discussion in each chapter

K-12 teachers, principals, school board members, and policy makers alike will benefit from the practical suggestions and no-nonsense approach offered in this definitive source on cheating.

Key features

Informal style, graphic elements to help illustrate key points, sample forms and policies

Important features include:

Glossary of key terms
Tips for detecting and preventing cheating & plagiarism
Strategies for responding to cheating with students, parents, and other educators
Sample school cheating policies and honor codes
Common resources that students use to cheat
Resources, including emerging high-tech methods, that can detect and deter cheating

Questions for Further Discussion at the end of each chapter making it ideal for study groups

Author(s)

Gregory J. Cizek

Gregory J. Cizek is Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His background in the field of educational assessment includes five years as a manager of licensure and certification testing programs for American College Testing (ACT) in Iowa City, Iowa, and 15 years of teaching experience at the college level, where his teaching assignments have consisted primarily of graduate courses in educational testing, research methods, and statistics. He is the author of over 200 books, chapters, articles, conference papers, and reports. His books include Handbook of Educational Policy (Academic Press, 1998); Cheating on Tests: How to Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999); Setting Performance Standards: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001); and Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating (Corwin Press, 2003). Dr. Cizek has served as an elected member and vice president of a local school board in Ohio, and he currently works with several states, organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education on technical and policy issues related to large-scale standards-based testing programs for students in grades K–12. He began his career as an elementary school teacher in Michigan, where he taught second and fourth grades.

Series Editors' Introduction

Preface

About the Author

Chapter 1. What Do We Know About Cheating in the Classroom?

Chapter 2. Why Is Cheating a Problem?

Chapter 3. How Does Cheating Occur?

Chapter 4. How Can Cheating Be Detected and Addressed?

Chapter 5. How Can Cheating Be Prevented?

Chapter 6. What Are the Next Steps?

Resource A: Glossary

Resource B: Resources Used to Cheat

Resource C: Resources to Help Deter Cheating