...all written assignments. Midterm Examination You are required to take a proctored online midterm examination. See the Calendar for the official dates for your midterm exam week. The midterm is a closed-book, proctored online exam. It is two hours long and covers all reading and assignments through module 5 of the course (chapters 1 through 13 of the text). It consists of five (5) essay questions. For the midterm, you are required to use the College's Online Proctor Service (OPS). Please refer to the "Examinations and Proctors" section of the Online Student Handbook (see General Information area of the course Web site) for further information about scheduling and taking online exams and for all exam policies and procedures. You are strongly advised to schedule your exam within the first week of the semester. Online exams are administered through the course Web site. Consult the course Calendar for the official dates of exam weeks. Statement about Cheating You are on your honor not to cheat during an exam. Cheating means: Looking up any answer or part of an answer in an unauthorized textbook or on the Internet, or using any other source to find an answer. Copying and pasting or, in any way copying responses or parts of responses from any other source into your exams. This includes but is not limited to copying and pasting from other documents or spreadsheets, whether written by yourself or anyone else. Plagiarizing answers. Asking anyone else to assist you by whatever...
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...technology, cheating becomes easier for students, but at the same time catching cheaters becomes just as easy. At GSMST, every student has access to laptops, and as a result I have seen students cheating during exams daily; however, I have also seen administrators busting huge cheating scandals just as much. My school’s system centers around having every student sign the honor code, but it is only working because the school has an academic integrity committee ran by teachers, students, and parents, who deal with the cheaters. An honor code enforced by peers creates an alternate motive for students rather than the typical school punishments. School punishment, such as detention or suspension, have not been effective enough in changing the student’s perception on cheating because they either don’t care about the punishment or get used to it. (Source F) The author mentions that with the students running the committee for cheating, those who cheat develop a sense of fear of being embarrassed in front of their fellow peers for...
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...Tangled Web #2: Were the punishments for James Gansman, Donna Murdoch, and Gerald Brodsky fair? This is an opinion question in which everyone has their own judgment on. I personally think that the punishments for James Gansman and Gerald Brodsky were somewhat fair because they both did something wrong. The sentence for Gansman should have been harsher because he was really the one who gave out the information. Gansman was being really unfaithful to Ernst and Young by giving out private information. He had agreed that he wouldn't leak anything when he first joined the company. His sentence was not very big, but the fact that he was not allowed working for Ernst and Young anymore seemed very fair and a good punishment for him. I am sure that in the future if he tries to find another job it would be difficult for him. On the other hand, Donna should have gotten a sentence too because she shared the information to Gerald. She also was breaking the law. If she got a sentence, it definitely should have been harsher than Gansman's. Murdoch being freed is somewhat ridiculous. #3: Is Ashley Madison based on an ethical business model? In my opinion Ashley Madison is somewhat based on an ethical business model. They have turned the business into something that is in the limit of the law. It also replicates rules like any other business. Though, since it is a dating site it is also not totally on the business side. In my opinion it is kind of half and half. On one side...
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...Academic dishonestly in online courses With the prevalence of online classes in today’s academic climate, I believe cheating occurs more frequently when students are enrolled for online classes. Because students have access to books, internet, and other sources of information in their own homes, many times students will take online exams with the aid of such resources. Also because there is not an easy way to monitor the actions of students during an online exam, there is more opportunity for students to cheat. Coming from a four year institution where many students opt to take online classes instead of regular lecture classes, I have seen students become very resourceful in the ways they go about cheating. For example, I have seen students copy the online homework and exam questions and forward them to friends in order to have another, maybe more knowledgeable, person give them the answers. Another example of cheating would be that some students copy the online questions, complete the answers correctly, and sell them to other students so that those students will also have the correct answers. Lastly, I have seen groups of students taking an online class, meet together and complete an exam together, helping each other figure out the correct answers to the questions. In order to become more effective in preventing cheating in the realm of online classes, I believe that some limitations should be put on these students. If the school were to implement a...
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...Available Utilizing a Culture of Trust to Promote Academic Integrity Who is the author or authors? By: Staats, Sara; Hupp, Julie M.; Hagley, Anna M. Journal of Psychology. Jul2008, Vol. 142 Issue 4, p357-372. 16p. 2 Charts, 5 Graphs. Robyn Hulsart Victoria McCarthy When was the article published? Final version accepted September 4, 2007 By: Hulsart, Robyn; McCarthy, Victoria. Journal of Continuing Higher Education. May-Jul2011, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p92-96. 5p. DOI: 10.1080/07377363.2011.568827. Was the article peer reviewed? Yes Yes Outline three major points the author made in the article. Honesty and Heroes: A Positive Psychology 1. The study in both experiment 1 and 2 that Academic Heroes were less likely to report cheating in themselves or others. Where as nonacademic heroes ( people more inclined to cheat ) were found to report a higher percentage of others or themselves. 2. The authors argue that students who are in the minority by not engaging in academic dishonesty show considerable character and are examples of everyday heroes. 3. Although the majority of college students report that they have cheated (S. F. Davis et al., 1992; Rennie & Rudland, 2003), not all students cheat. Lack of academic misconduct, though rare,...
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...Cheating on exams in online courses Proctored exams are necessary in order to maintain the credibility and integrity of currently offered online degree programs. There has been much written on the subject of cheating by students on the college level and studies conducted to support the conclusions. With the advent of the internet and the recent trend of colleges pressured to offer totally online degree programs the opportunity to cheat has expanded with the same exponent. “Academic integrity has been a perennial issue in higher education. Undoubtedly, the advent of the Internet and advances in user-friendly technological devices have spurred both concern on the part of faculty and research interest in the academic community regarding inappropriate and unethical behavior on the part of students. 73.6% of students in the sample held the perception that it is easier to cheat in an online versus traditional course.” (King, Guyette and Piotrowski 2009) Internet based classes are experiencing a growth surge. With the recent employment crisis, and the increased weight on academic achievement, more adults are now able to enroll in online classes, and still maintain full time jobs and meet the demands of busy families. In a study conducted by Oskar Harmon and James Lambrinos they used a “model that predicts exam scores from independent variables of student characteristics. In one course, the final exam was proctored, and in the other course, the final exam was not proctored...
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...dignity.. College faculty along with teachers should have a system in place to deal with students who are cheating. The punishment should be failing the student in that course, and hopefully in a result it will discourage them from cheating because they are there to learn, and not to became scam artists also disciplining the cheater will provide an example to others. Students cheat for many different reasons. Many cheat because they rather go and hang out with their friends instead of studying. Some student feel the need to cheat because they missed too many days of school, and there are some that do not understand the material, so they cheat to get a passing grade. How can they be dealt with,or what should be the consequences for their actions. The way young minds processes things should be taken in to consideration for example lets take a young boy who stole a chocolate bar from the corner store,and the store clerk catches him. Hopefully the clerk feels sympathy for him in some strange way and instead of calling the police he'll call the boys mother. Now that boy will get in to so much trouble at home from his mother as well as from his father that he will never steal again. Same principal is used here, when the student gets caught cheating, he/she will automatically be failed in the course.That sort of a threat followed by action should discourage anyone from cheating. This sort of action will promote integrity which mostly everyone are thought form young....
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...Chris Haire Ms. Heady Developing Writing, 3rd hr. 12 December 2012 Steroids are the death of sports Steroids are the worst thing when it comes to competition because during this can cause a serious problem as far as your health goes and your reputation if caught. (ballislife.com). In these cases thing always change because athletes do this in every sport then when caught never know what to say or how to apologize for their actions. Sports should be something that is fun and not something were you cheating your competition by medicine instead of hard work in the gym. In sports when athletes go down the wrong route there careers are affected when caught and sometimes universities are punished for their actions if the university knew about the drugs all along. Drugs in sports are nothing to play with. Your family and fans will be hurt by your decision if you were a really big Icon. You can’t do the crime and be afraid of the consequences (Barry Bonds). (www.espn go.com) in competition if you have to cheat to when then who is the real winner? The truth will come out eventually and your pride will be hurt more than ever because your caught red handed and the local and if good enough nationwide news will make an example out of you. If a professional athlete you will be stripped of championship rings and more because In the league eyes they weren’t earned, they were cheated (www.sportsfax.com). All sports have there best players and people that have did wrong things just because...
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...Cheating has always been looked down upon in society, but it still thrives in the classrooms of schools and universities. It doesn't seem to matter whether it is right or wrong, just as long as it gets you that A you were looking for. Cheating has grown over the past few years and the question is why? Who's to blame? I know cheating occurs in Bacon Academy. I'll even be so honest to admit that I have participated in cheating once or twice in my high school career. Even so, I know it's not okay; and there are serious punishments if you are caught: there will be a zero on the assignment, and a suspension if you plagiarize. Ouch, cheating definitely doesn't sound worth the risk. So why do we do it? Cheating is done for multiple reasons. Sometimes it's done just to help out a friend. Your neighbor asks about a question during a test and you reply with the answer just to be courteous, nothing more than that. There's no deeper reason, other than maybe one day your neighbor will be able to return the favor. Another form of cheating is the "!%#&, I forgot to study for this test, but the smartest person in the room is sitting right next to me" reason. Some people figure there's no harm because they're going to do poorly anyway. But some people cheat because they're lazy or just don't care. All of these reasons don't make it okay to cheat, and its recurrence in school is an issue. Bacon has all types of cheating, and it can be blamed individually on the teachers, the students themselves...
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...Journal of Psychology. I found that Paul Panek peer reviewed an early draft of this article. A second article “Academic Honesty and Online Courses” published in 2006 by Therese C. Grijalva, Clifford Nowell, and Joe Kerkvliet. “Academic Honesty and Online Courses” was also found using the EBSCO database. There is nothing provided to show this article has been peer reviewed. “Honesty and Heroes,” further explains the author’s theory on academic misconduct versus heroism. Academic misconduct and dishonesty is almost always an action committed by acting dishonest, says “Honesty and Heroes.” A student who chooses to be dishonest cheats; there for a cheater cheating weakens the credibility of a person and dis credits the degree earned. Essentially a degree obtained with cheating or other unethical effort lacks value. The idea behind “Honesty and Heroes” is there lays a similarity between heroism and academic honesty. The integrity of a student characteristics who make it a goal to succeed through the requirements presented will have formed the tools to succeed. A person chooses to go to college and become a student should always to expect to work hard, dedicate time, and be prepared to persevere. These are the essential tools needed when applying an academic honesty. The article and authors of “Honesty and Heroes” published a theory that academic misconduct most likely thrives most amongst people with emotional disorders such as low self-esteem...
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...Studies conducted on adults have demonstrated the effectiveness of utilising promises to eliminate cheating and these results have been suggested to be a consequence of wanting to maintain consistency between commitments and actions. Children are thought to have difficulty complying with rules when it conflicts with their self interest as a result of their underdeveloped self regulation skills. However, while a study suggested that children younger than seven years old values commitment and holds a negative view of those who break promises, are children also motivated to avoid discrepancies between their promises and actions? Psychologist Gail Heyman and colleagues recently published a study in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology that tackled this question. They aimed to discover the effect of eliciting verbal promises on rule compliance in children. The experiment consisted of two studies both of which were conducted on Han Chinese children in China. The first study consisted of 240 children, ranging from ages 4 to 7, in two randomly allocated groups: a promise group (where a verbal promise not to cheat was obtained) and a no promise group (where no verbal promise pertaining to cheating was obtained). A rigged card guessing game was played between an experimenter and each individual participant from both groups and a situation was created where upon the child’s last chance of winning the game, the experimenter leaves the room thus creating an opportunity...
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...Jack Bass A cheating situation occurred with Jack Bass, an accounting professor. Bass had given his students an exam and at the end asked them to identify any test items that had been graded incorrectly by the Scantron machine and submit it to the teaching assistant. After this Bass suspected that some had changed their answers. So, for the next exam, Bass made a copy of the students’ exams and asked them to do the same thing for identifying incorrect answers. After comparison of the copy and the resubmission it was discovered that some had changed their answers. Jack brought the situation to the dean and this resulted in those students withdrawing from the course and receiving sanction letter on their academic file. All the cheaters agreed to this accept one, D.R. Street III. His argument was that he misunderstood the directions and that he should be allowed to withdraw without a sanction letter. When the dean said no he had his father talk with the chancellor and ultimately he was allowed to withdraw without the sanction letter. Entrapment Jack Bass did not entrap his students by withholding the Scantron information from them. Cheating is a serious offence at any academic institution. Regardless of the situation, whether the cheater was caught off guard or not, cheating still occurred. Students are completely aware of the consequences of performing an act of academic dishonesty. They should behave accordingly at all times, that is, be honest about your work. This is...
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...Cheating comes in many variations. Just because you are not leaning over and peaking at somebody else's exam does not mean that you are not cheating. Cheating includes any dishonest action used by a student to complete an assignment without actually having to complete it themselves. Some of the most common forms of cheating are looking at someone else's exam, using materials without permission, collaborating with other students without permission, and not reporting another student if you see that he or she is cheating. Students cheat for all types of reasons: pressure to succeed, no time to study, peer pressure, laziness, and the list goes on. While schools claim that a student can be expelled for cheating, many cheating students escape the consequences. I do not think that it's possible to set consequences based on the reason why a person cheated because the severity of a reason can be relative, but it's more logical to base consequences on the method in which the cheating was done. Perhaps the most classic form of cheating on an exam is taking a quick peek at the exam of the person sitting next to you or in front of you. Oftentimes it's easy to see answers in the corner of your eye and the teacher seldom notices. I believe that this type of cheating should result in automatic failure of the exam, no questions asked. Likewise, if the student tries to cheat again then he or she should fail the whole course. Looking at someone else's exam is extremely unfair because you're putting...
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...Albert W. Tucker, a Princeton mathematician. The prisoners’ dilemma has applications to economics and business. Consider two firms, say Coca-Cola and Pepsi, selling similar products. Each must decide on a pricing strategy. They best exploit their joint market power when both charge a high price; each makes a profit of ten million dollars per month. If one sets a competitive low price, it wins a lot of customers away from the rival. Suppose its profit rises to twelve million dollars, and that of the rival falls to seven million. If both set low prices, the profit of each is nine million dollars. Here, the low-price strategy is akin to the prisoner’s confession, and the high-price akin to keeping silent. Call the former cheating, and the latter cooperation. Then cheating is each firm’s dominant strategy, but the result when both “cheat” is worse for each than...
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