Cheating Lessons

James M. Lang

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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
• Visit Lang’s website
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