Argument: How does honor code reduces cheating among nursing students and creates better nurses?
Positive components: by signing the honors code, students develop a commitment to honesty (McCabe).
Counter argument: since the pressure to succeed in nursing school is so high, signing a paper does not help nursing student manage their behavior. Especially, for required, non – nursing related electives, students think it is not realistic to learn the materials. (McCabe)
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I did find a study that references McCabe's work but shows that honors codes do not necessarily have a positive influence on cheaters: Vandehey, Michael, George Diekhoff, and Emily LaBeff. "College Cheating: A Twenty-Year Follow-Up and the Addition of an Honor Code" Journal of College Student Development 48.4 (2007) 468-480. I sent you a copy. It is not exactly a refutation of McCabe -- it just suggests that honor codes do not directly impact cheating behavior among students likely to cheat. But if you read the article you will see that it mentions positive aspects of honors codes.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure more sources are out there. Try the ERIC database. Just search Don McCabe and see if there are articles disagreeing with him.
I did find a piece on cheating in professional programs: "'The fault lies not in our students, but in ourselves': academic honesty and moral development in health professions education--results of a pilot study in Canadian pharmacy."
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I think you should be able to track down work on the attitudes of those enrolled in professional programs that might encourage cheating. It might be explained by neutralization -- that cheating in non-professional curricula is acceptable behavior because it does not count....
ReplyDeleteYou may need in the end to review a lot of studies and then draw meta-conclusions from them.
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