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Cheating Lessons

Learning from Academic Dishonesty

James M. Lang

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$32.00 • £27.95 • €29.95

ISBN 9780674724631

Publication Date: 09/02/2013

272 pages

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Introduction
Part I: Building a Theory of Cheating
- 1. Who Cheats—and How Much?
- 2. Case Studies in (the History of) Cheating
- 3. “Fudging” Learning Environments
Part II: The (Nearly) Cheating-Free Classroom
- 4. Fostering Intrinsic Motivation
- 5. Learning for Mastery
- 6. Lowering Stakes
- 7. Instilling Self-Efficacy
Part III: Speaking about Cheating
- 8. Cheating on Campus
- 9. On Original Work
- 10. Responding to Cheating
- 11. Cheating in Your Classroom
Conclusion: The Future of Cheating
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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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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