Academic Ethics

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: How does a new teaching assistant handle a student with a learning disability? What responsibility does the university and/or faculty members have to train a graduate student in the universities policies? This case explores the pote...
Year: 2001
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/hardware.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Dr. Franklin, a profession teaching Quantative Analysis questions what he should do for a student who is working very hard in his class, but lacks a basic understanding of algebra. He fears that while the student is likely to pass t...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/underprepared.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This scenario highlights potential dilemmas encountered by postdoctoral fellows in a research setting. How should issues of possible cheating be resolved when no clear evidence supports the claim? Commentaries included....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/final.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case is a discussion about affirmative action, graduate education and graduate research; the case raises questions about the responsibilities of university research in society and issues surrounding student-mentor relationships...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/admissions.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case highlights potential dilemmas encountered by postdoctoral fellows in a research setting. Who should be included as advisor on a student's thesis when the work has been done in two laboratories?...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/fair.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: What obligations do universities and universities have to help students with job placement after they have graduated? This case discusses two important, interrelated issues: ethical decision making between science faculty members an...
Year: 1998
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/specials.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A professor reveals partial results of a graduate student`s preliminary exam to another student. ...
Year: 1998
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/confidentiality.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A chemistry student is dismissed after being found with books that describe some potentially threatening chemical recipies...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/unabomber.aspx

Authors: Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Robert Ladenson ; Anestidou, Lida ; Weigel, Christine ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the past few years, high school and college students have increasingly been using drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall to htelp them study longer with greater focus and efficiency. While some see using drugs as cheating, others cl...
Year: 2005
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Mind%20Enhancing%20Drugs.pdf

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An scenario designed to stimulate discussion about the ethical issues that arise in advisor-adevisee relationship; a student and advisor disagree about whether work completed for a Ph.D. should count towards an MA....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/2963/modindex/resethpages/aborted.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Students in an advanced computer programming class develop a program that automates the enrollment process for a private school in the area. At the end of the course, the students who developed the best program deny the professor th...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/IntelProperty.aspx

Authors: Nath, Leda ; Lovaglia, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: . The authors review the general cheating problem in academe, and introduces a program to conservatively identify likely cheaters on multiple-choice exams, and offer a procedure for handling likely cheaters. Feedback from students w...
Year: 2009

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Authors: Maehre, Jeff
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: This essay argues in favor of college instructors, especially in introductory classes, giving students the freedom to use Wikipedia entries in their research projects. The author argues the need instructors, rather than rigidly proh...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/87567550903218711

Authors: Young, Michael F. ; Stephens, Jason M. ; Calabrese, Thomas
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: This study provides a comparative analysis of students' self-reported beliefs and behaviors related to six analogous pairs of conventional and digital forms of academic cheating. Results from an online survey of undergraduates at tw...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1080/10508420701519197

Authors: Staats, Sara ; Hupp, Julia M. ; Wallace, Heidi ; Gresley, Jamee
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: Some students do not cheat. Students high in measures of bravery, honesty, and empathy, our defining characteristics of heroism, report less past cheating than other students. These student heroes also reported that they would feel ...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/10508420802623716

Authors: Yardley, Jennifer ; Rodriguez, Melanie Domenech ; Bates, Scott C. ; Nelson, Johnathan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: College cheating is prevalent, with rates ranging widely from 9 to 95% (Whitley, 1998). Research has been exclusively conducted with enrolled college students. This study examined the prevalence of cheating in a sample of college al...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/10508420903035257

Authors: Witek, Michael B. ; Bernardi, Richard A ; Baca, Ania V. ; Landers, Kristen S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: This study examines the methods students use to cheat on class examinations and suggests ways of deterring using an international sample from Australia, China, Ireland, and the United States. We also examine the level of cheating an...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1080/10508420701713030

Authors: Moran, Antonia C. ; Conway, James M. ; Hard, Stephen F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Higher Education
Abstract: This article reports on the prevalence of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and cheating, which has increased and the faculty often does nothing to prevent cheating. The perception of misconduct is important because that can b...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/jhe.2006.0048

Authors: Meyers, Steven A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: Faculty members are often unprepared to effectively handle classroom conflict, which may be distressing and disruptive. A range of techniques are presented that faculty can use to help prevent the development of negative emotions an...
Year: 2003
URL: http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/meyers/conflict.pdf

Authors: McCormick, Donald W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: Focuses on ethical problems encountered by a teacher and how he responds to them. Code of ethics developed by the American Psychological Association; Pre-conference workshops on ethical issues in teaching....
Year: 1994

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Authors: Rudebock, Richard D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: Presents an article on evaluating the possibility of cheating among students in a small business management class taught at a private Christian liberal arts university. Strategy in implementing the evaluation; Reaction of the studen...
Year: 2005

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Authors: Hutton, Patricia A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: This article reviews the empirical evidence on college student cheating, and provides an analysis of how widespread rule breaking can develop in an organization. The implications are that students cheat because the benefit/cost tra...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.canisius.edu/images/userImages/cteweb/Page_5017/Hutton.pdf

Authors: Haas, Paul F. ; Keeley, Stuart M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: Focuses on students' resistance to critical thinking and suggests ways for teachers to cope it. Reasons for faculty's failure to make critical thinking a central teaching ethic; Obstacles in textbooks....
Year: 1998
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27558883

Authors: Kuther, Tara L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: College Teaching
Abstract: Two studies examined college students' perceptions of professors' ethical responsibilities. Students agreed that professors must demonstrate respect for students, teach objectively, and grade honestly, and they should not tolerate c...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27559158

Authors: Dalton, Rex
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports on the dispute between biologist and faculty member Tyrone Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley and herbicide atrazine producer Sygenta. It says that the dispute started when Hayes' researches on atraz...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1038/466913a