Strategies to Reduce Academic Dishonesty
- Define standards of academic integrity in course syllabus.
- Discuss your expectations of academic integrity in first class session.
- Create an honor statement that students sign for each test, project, and paper where students pledge that they have not plagiarized or cheated on the work they have submitted.
- Create examination environments that discourage cheating.
- Do not permit cell phones, hats, or sun glasses.
- Assign seating.
- Use alternate forms of test for adjacent seats.
- Bring extra proctor to large test sites.
- Create system to account for test materials and bluebooks.
- Require students to show ID when submitting completed tests.
- Define your expectations about group collaboration verses individual work product.
- Define guidelines for "take home examinations".
- Clearly describe your standards for citing materials that are taken from other sources.
- Discuss appropriate use of internet sources.
- Warn students that you may use search engines to check suspicious passages in reports and essays.