{"id":2194,"date":"2013-10-02T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2013-10-02T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T19:10:47","slug":"dealing-with-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/dealing-with-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Exam by albertogp123, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/albertogp123\/5843577306\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5225\/5843577306_06fd6132f7_n.jpg?resize=320%2C214\" alt=\"Exam\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, I get asked about cheating a lot. Instead of focusing on student characteristics related to cheating, I typically encourage faculty (including myself) to look for ways to discourage academic dishonesty through the learning environments we establish.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Lang, who writes a regular column for the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, did a thought-provoking three part series on this topic. In Part 2 he focuses on how our assessments can encourage or discourage cheating. He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why should I bother to redesign my courses to include more frequent, low-stakes assessments, which will require more time and effort on my part, just to reduce the already small numbers of students who may be cheating in my courses? The short answer: You shouldn't redesign your courses just to reduce cheating. You should redesign them in order to increase learning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Want to know more? Read his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Cheating-Lessons-Part-2\/140113\/\">Cheating Lessons, Part 2<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are dealing with this issues, I\u00a0 encourage you to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Cheating-Lessons-Part-1\/139453\/\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Cheating-Lessons-Part-3\/141141\/\">Part 3<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57280691@N02\/5843577306\/\">albertogp123<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/compfight.com\">Compfight<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, I get asked about cheating a lot. Instead of focusing on student characteristics related to cheating, I typically encourage faculty (including myself) to look for ways to discourage academic dishonesty through the learning environments we establish. Dr. James Lang, who writes a regular column <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/dealing-with-cheating\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Dealing with Cheating\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[58],"class_list":{"0":"post-2194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-teaching","7":"tag-cheating","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-zo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18478,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-assessments-in-a-virtual-environment\/","url_meta":{"origin":2194,"position":0},"title":"ICYMI: Assessments in a Virtual Environment","author":"Janice Florent","date":"June 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A common question in online learning is \u201cHow do we keep students from cheating in online exams?\u201d A shift from traditional means of assessment (quizzes, tests, exams) to authentic and alternative assessments is critical in virtual settings. 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