Cheating Lessons

Learning from Academic Dishonesty

James M. Lang

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ISBN 9780674724631

Publication Date: 09/02/2013

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272 pages

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James M. Lang is Associate Professor of English at Assumption College and former assistant director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University.

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At the Chronicle of Higher Education, read James Lang’s three-part series on the themes of Cheating Lessons: (1) in many educational situations, students are incentivized to cheat; (2) it is vital to offer frequent, low-stakes opportunities to demonstrate learning (as a means of mitigating those incentives); and (3) the process of taking these frequent, low-stakes exams is, itself, a way to learn (not just a way to evaluate what has been learned)
At the Time Magazine blog Ideas, read Lang’s response to a recent survey of Harvard students (given in the wake of a cheating scandal) in which almost half of incoming freshmen admitted to cheating
Read an interview with Lang at Inside Higher Ed
Read an essay by Lang at The Daily Dot on cheating’s prevalence in the newest format for group education—the “massive open online course,” or MOOC
On WBUR’s Radio Boston, listen to Lang discuss how to encourage academic honesty among students
In the Boston Globe and Times Educational Supplement, read Lang’s argument that the current rewards structure of many classes encourages dishonesty
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