#7. Annotated Bibliography

McCabe, Don, and Daniel Katz. "Curbing Cheating." Education Digest 75.1 (2009): 16-9. Print. He discusses the phenomena of more and more students cheat in school exams. Although the article is primarily focus on high school students, it provides expert’s view on why students cheat, how students cheat, and how to prevent student from cheating, which gives a fundamental background on the research project of this paper. In his article, he suggests that adding honors code to the school academic dishonesty policy would decrease the number of cheating cases in school. This gives me a direction on searching possible solutions for solving cheating cases among nursing students.

McCabe, Donald, and Linda Klebe Trevino. "Honesty and Honor Codes." Academe 88.1 (2002): 37. Print. In this article, McCabe brings up the easiness of students cheating in exams with the technologies and the difficulty and concerns regarding of how students and educators view academic dishonesty. But most importantly, he uses data to explain the difference between schools that have honors code and schools that do not have honors code in relationship to the number of academic integrity cases that the school has and concludes that setting up honors code in universities and colleges will significantly reduce the chance of students cheating on exams. This article provides me with more specific and evident – based information on honors code, which might be something that I can use in my research paper.

#6. Research Question

00Ok, on my last post, I did get a little bit random. I will probably rewrite blog #5 with my bibliography rough draft.

When I search the resources, one article that caught my eye is "A Pilot Study of Nursing Student's Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Generation Y Perspective." Because I have heard some cases of medical school students cheating on their exams. I think this is not only against the university policies, but also very scary, because, doctors’ and nurses’ practices are heavily based on specific skills and knowledge. If they cheat on exams when they are in school, they probably do not have the knowledge in their mind, and when they go to clinical, they do not know what to do with the patients. Therefore, they are putting the patients’ lives at risk.

Now “academic dishonesty in the health professions” is my main interest. I will try to find more sources to make this topic work (if there is not much resources, I might have to change a topic). The one question that I can think of now is “whether a more strict academic dishonesty policy should be made and apply to nursing student?” (Maybe it will cause big problems when they enter the clinical, or it does not matter because when they enter the hospitals, they will learn what they need to know from the beginning by practices)

References: Arhin, Afua O. "A Pilot Study of Nursing Student's Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Generation Y Perspective." ABNF Journal 20.1 (2009): 17-21. Print.

#5. Scholarly Sources

I choose the “Academic Search Premier” as my search database. I typed in “academic dishonesty” as my keywords, and choose the “full text” option. I also limited the publication time to the recent 10 years. So here are some articles that I found interesting:

Aluede, Oyaziwo, Eunice O. Omoregie, and Gloria I. Osa- Edoh. "Academic Dishonesty as a Contemporary Problem in Higher Education: How Academic Advisers can Help." Reading Improvement 43.2 (2006): 97-106.

Arhin, Afua O. "A Pilot Study of Nursing Student's Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Generation Y Perspective." ABNF Journal 20.1 (2009): 17-21.

Levy, Elliott S., and Carter C. Rakovski. "ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: A Zero Tolerance Professor and Student Registration Choices." Research in Higher Education 47.6 (2006): 735-54.

Schmelkin, Liora Pedhazur, et al. "A Multidimensional Scaling of College Students' Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty." Journal of Higher Education 79.5 (2008): 587-607.

Sileo, Jane M., and Thomas W. Sileo. "Academic Dishonesty and Online Classes: A Rural Education Perspective." Rural Special Education Quarterly 27.1 (2008): 55-60.

Wowra, Scott A. "INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Academic Dishonesty." Ethics & Behavior 17.3 (2007): 211-4.

#4 Rutgers RIOT

This is the first time that I have use Rutgers RIOT. I have to say that it is an interesting and useful tool or my literacy training. It teaches me the research skills not only by talking, but also by let me engage in the learning process. I went through all the modules and had fun with them. I also finished some quizzes that they provide (and I did well on them ^_^). I have a main problem of citing sources, so I started form Module 4”Identiy Citations”. It has helped me a lot. I learned the difference between the citation of a book and a journal. There are some main differences: the citation of a book has the publisher name and the date of publication. The citation of a journal has volume number and page numbers. I also went though Module 5 carefully and learned that not all the resources can be used in a research paper. I wish that they can provide more information on some of the main research tools and do a tutorial on them, because I still have a problem with using refwork to cite my resources.

#3. Questions for Librarians

- What kinds of research resources do we have

- Which databases are most useful for this course

- How long does it take for the required article deliver to me

- Are there any media resources that we can rent

- Is there a fee for article delivery

- What kinds of help can we get from the library

- What kinds of research support can we get from the library

#2. Further research

I think I still want to do my research on academic cheating, and focus on the causes of it. Luckily, when I search on the internet, there is a lot of information on this topic. First I search Google and use the term “college cheating”, it went back with a lot of results that relates to academics. In Google Scholar, some of the full articles are only open to subscribers. So that is a little annoying that I found a good article but I can not view the whole text. Also, YouTube gives me some good clips about college cheating, but the key term that I type in must be “college academic cheating”, if not, the results will include some unrelated topic. Such as, “college cheats on students” or “college students cheating on relationships”. They are interesting but unrelated to my project. I would like to start from researching and analyzing some cases of academic cheating and find what common aspects they have. Two of the useful sources that I found are “Academic Honesty: Cheating and Plagiarism” (http://depts.washington.edu/grading/issue1/honesty.htm), and “Academic dishonesty” from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty). Both resources provide an overview on college cheating (more formally, Academic dishonesty). I think they will be a good starting point, but I doubt that can use them as a reference in my research paper. An interesting clip that I find on YouTube is “College Cheating Story” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpPnjWP59MU). As the clips mentioned, there are many causes that leads to academic dishonesty. So, now I am thinking about the option of presenting some major causes parallel to each other or focus on one cause and do the research.