ACM Ubiquity - In Defense of Cheating
Donald A. Norman argues that cheating is a natural response to much of what the education system thinks is important.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i11_norman.html
ACM Ubiquity - PCs in the Classroom & Open Book Exams
Open-book exams compared/contrasted with open-internet exams and issues related to cheating via computer. Article by Evan Golub, Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i9_golub.html
Beating the Cheating
Librarian-designed webquest to teach teachers about the problem of internet-facilitated cheating and plagiarism.
http://www.lerc.educ.ubc.ca/LERC/students/4771999S/LIBE1/MD/
Cheating: An Epidemic
Short article about academic cheating from about.com
http://privateschool.about.com/cs/forteachers/a/cheating.htm
EducationGuardian.co.uk - Widespread cheating devalues school tests
Cheating in national tests for 11-year-olds is so widespread that school league tables can no longer be trusted, a Guardian investigation has found.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/primaryeducation/story/0,11146,820711,00.html
Intellectual Honesty
Describes the many variations on "what is plagiarism" and admonishes students not to be party to others' plagiarism.
http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/honesty.htm
L.A. Times - Scandal in Organic Semiconductor Development
"Prominent Physicist Fired for Faking Data Research: Bell Labs says scientist 'recklessly' misrepresented work on microprocessors."
http://www.drproctor.com/os/latimesschon.htm
Lucent - Research Review
Results of inquiry into the validity of certain physics research papers from Bell Labs. Independent committee finds one researcher committed scientific misconduct and clears the 19 other authors investigated.
http://publish.aps.org/reports/lucentrep.pdf
Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
A production of the Rutgers University Libraries. An interactive lesson designed to teach students about avoiding infractions of academic integrity policies and instances of plagiarism. Requires the Flash plugin; best accessed over a fast connection.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html
TOPICS Online Magazine for ESL - Academic Dishonesty (Cheating)
Tutorial of sorts intended primarily for adult ESL students. Includes vocabulary and idioms, photo essay demonstrating cheating techniques, hypothetical situations, a poll, and real-life stories.
http://www.topics-mag.com/edition13/cheating-page.htm
The Chronicle Online: Honor violations rise at term's end
Duke University reports that the number of academic integrity violations has surged during this past spring semester.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2004/06/03/News/Honor.Violations.Rise.At.Terms.End-1470024.shtml
The Claremont Institute: The Fall of an Academic Fraud
Now-former Emory University professor and author manipulated and/or falsified information in order to back assertions made in the book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture."
http://www.claremont.org/publications/precepts/id.16/precept_detail.asp
Tools for Teaching - Preventing Academic Dishonesty
Ideas are designed to help impart to students the values of academic honesty and to help set policies that encourage academic integrity.
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html
University of Manitoba - Cheating, Plagiarism & Fraud
Material to help if you have been accused of or if you suspect someone else of committing an academic offense; and material help understand academic offenses better in order to inadvertently avoid committing them.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/student/advocacy/cheating_plagiarism_fraud.shtml
University of Manitoba - Inappropriate Collaboration
Material to help understand what inappropriate collaboration is in order to inadvertently avoid committing this offence.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/student/advocacy/inappropriate_collaborate.shtml
Wired News: New Toys for Cheating Students
Wireless devices and palm-sized computers provide many possibilities for cheating in testing situations.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38066,00.html
Wired News: Students Called on SMS Cheating
Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers. Another six students were implicated in the case.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,57484,00.html