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Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call
New Book Shows Parents, Teachers, and Society How to Fight This National Epidemic
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June 2000 - Cheating has become a national epidemic. It's happening in schools across the country-in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, even colleges. The statistics are shocking: - 80% of high school students admit to having cheated
- 67% say they have copied homework
- 98% say they have let others copy their work
- 95% of those who cheated avoided getting caught
- 34% said their parents never talked to them about cheating
In another survey done at college campuses, more than 75% of the students admitted to cheating, but less than half of the college faculty said they had ever reported cheating. Even in elementary schools, cheating has become so common that in a recent writing contest in Atlanta, 3 of the 10 finalists were disqualified for plagiarizing.
Cheating has become a high-tech habit and kids are using everything from hand-held computers, pagers, and watches to e-mails, computer networks, and Web sites to make the grades they don't deserve. Parents, community leaders, educators, and other concerned adults can fight this growing plague, but only if they arm themselves with information for identifying the problem and the tools for combating cheating when and where it happens. That's where Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call comes into play.
In this vital call to action, authors Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss offer you essential data about what's going on and provide you with effective ways to put an end this alarming and destructive trend. You'll learn to recognize the danger signs of cheating and how to identify material that has been downloaded or copied. You'll find out the main Web sites used for downloading papers. Educators will learn how to structure assignments to discourage cheating and how to respond to student cheating. Sample policies for developing academic integrity, reproducible lessons for students and faculty, and lists of helpful online and print resources are just some of the other features you'll find in this informative book.
A must-read for concerned parents and community leaders, this is also an important guide for teachers, librarians, and school administrators. Cheating is a serious problem that undermines our society's basic values and threatens our academic integrity. With this work you can inform yourself, get involved, and help put a halt to plagiarism and cheating now.
Ann Lathrop is Professor Emerita, California State University, Long Beach.
Kathleen Foss is Media Specialist, Los Alamitos Unified School District, California.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
Publication date: June 2000 xi, 255p. 6x9 paper
ISBN 1-56308-841-X
$30.00 ($36.00 outside North America)
800-237-6124 or lu-books@lu.com
Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
800-237-6124
lu-books@lu.com
http://www.lu.com
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