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| ABC News: A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools: Result of a six-month investigation. | |
| Academic Fraud At The U: U Comes Clean: A series of stories about major fraud related to academics and the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota during the 1990s. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Beating the Cheating: Librarian-designed webquest to teach teachers about the problem of internet-facilitated cheating and plagiarism. | |
| Cheating: An Epidemic: Short article about academic cheating from about.com | |
| EducationGuardian.co.uk - The exam system that puts temptation in teachers' way: The UK system of national testing for 11-year-olds puts too much trust in individual teachers to police themselves. | |
| 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. | |
| iamnext.com - Cheating in School and Life: What to Do?: Editorial about how cheating of all types appears to be increasing in the U.S. | |
| Intellectual Honesty: Describes the many variations on "what is plagiarism" and admonishes students not to be party to others' plagiarism. | |
| L.A. Times - Scandal in Organic Semiconductor Development: "Prominent Physicist Fired for Faking Data Research: Bell Labs says scientist 'recklessly' misrepresented work on microprocessors." | |
| 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. | |
| On Intellectual Honesty: "While it is clearly expected that each student shall exhibit honesty in taking exams and in representing the authorship of his/her work, there are other dimensions to intellectual honesty that impinge on every aspect of thinking and communicating." | |
| 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. | |
| Plagiarism: A Misplaced Emphasis: An article by Brian Martin published in Journal of Information Ethics, 1994. Argues that "concern about plagiarism has been diverted from the most serious and pervasive problems and channelled into excessive concern about less serious problems." | |
| 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. | |
| 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." | |
| The Infinite Mind: Cheating: Summary of and a link to a radio broadcast discussing cheating in schools, in academia, by primates in general, and in relationships. | |
| The Scientist : Fallout from fraud: Fossil algae researcher used plagiarized photographs in his papers for many years before being detected. | |
| 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. | |
| U.S.News & World Report - Exclusive Poll: Cheaters Win: Most students think that cheaters will not suffer any negative consequences for their actions. Also covers the results of some other polls about cheating. | |
| Unconventional University Diplomas from Online Vendors: Buying a Ph.D. From a University That Doesn't Exist: 7.6 megabyte pdf file. George Gollin explains how he followed up on an ad that popped up on his computer about getting a "diploma within days." Includes many screenshots of what he learned. | |
| 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. | |
| University of Manitoba - Inappropriate Collaboration: Material to help understand what inappropriate collaboration is in order to inadvertently avoid committing this offence. | |
| University of Manitoba - Test Your Integrity IQ: 11 school-related ethics questions with an answer key. | |
| Wired News: New Toys for Cheating Students: Wireless devices and palm-sized computers provide many possibilities for cheating in testing situations. | |
| 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. |
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