Cheating in Advantaged High Schools: Prevalence, Justifications, and Possibilities for Change

Can Priming Legal Consequences and the Concept of Honesty Decrease Cheating During Examinations?

“…The proportion of students who cheat on examinations is high; 59% of high school students admitted to cheating on a test in the past year [Josephson Institute (2010) ethics report card 34% indicated that they had cheated more than once]. Nearly half of the students queried admitted to cheating at least occasionally on tests (Galloway, 2012).…”

Correlates of students’ internalization and defiance of classroom rules: A self‐determination theory perspective

“…Large‐scale surveys with nationally representative samples have shown that the prevalence of student misbehaviour is fairly high. With 54% of 8–12 grade students in the United States exhibiting at least one out of a list of seven specific misbehaviours (e.g., skipping classes, disruptive behaviour, fighting; Finn, Fish, & Scott, ), over 90% of American 9–12 grade students reporting having cheated at least once during their high school career (Galloway, ), and a truancy percentage of around 30% among Malaysian (12–17 years; Yoep et al ., ) and Belgian (14–21 years; Keppens & Spruyt, ) secondary school students, student misbehaviour clearly is a challenge for teachers that traverses national boundaries. Moreover, researchers have reported that specific disruptive classroom behaviours are directly connected to poorer academic achievement and dropout (Finn et al ., ).…”

Practices to Support Developing Academic Integrity in Secondary School Students

“…As previously mentioned, students' poor time management creates many opportunities to form rationalizations in support of academic dishonesty. High school students can be meaningfully helped by their teachers who break projects and papers into smaller graded assignments such as project description or thesis, abstracted bibliography with proper citations, outline, draft, and revision with the submission of a final draft to a service like TurnItIn for students to directly receive an originality report (DeSena 2007;Galloway 2012;Lathrop and Foss 2005;Strom and Strom 2007). DeSena (2007) notes the value of the online source of the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University (OWL) -www.owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/ research/index.html -to help guide students in citing references correctly.…”

“…There are also important skills in writing well that require instruction and frequent review to help students avoid cheating and these skills can include: effective note taking to maintain a clear link with a complete citation, understanding the appropriate use of quotes and how to cite them, paraphrasing that maintains the original author's meaning with citation, understanding the difference between paraphrasing and "patch writing," and the ability to compare, contrast, and synthesize the writing from multiple authors while maintaining clear citations (DeSena 2007;Galloway 2012;Menager-Beeley and Paulos 2006;Stern 2007).…”