Tuesday, February 23, 2010

#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.

2 comments:

  1. OK -- that's a good start. Does your nursing school have an honor code? How would McCabe interpret it?

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  2. By the way, there is an "Academic Integrity Town Hall" tonight at 8 in the Busch Campus Center Multi-Purpose room to discuss new integrity policies. If you cannot make this one, I am sure there will be others on other campuses. It might offer a good primary source.

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