Gen105

Gen/105 July 19, 2010 * What keyword search did you use to find the article' Online academic honesty * What is the article’s title' Academic Honesty and Online Courses * Who is the author or authors' Theresa C. Grijalva; Clifford Noel; Joe Lerkvliet * When was the article published' March 1, 2006 * Was the article peer-reviewed' This article was peer reviewed * In what database did you find the article' * EBSCO database * * * * * What keyword search did you use to find the article' Academic dishonesty * What is the article’s title' Academic Dishonesty and Intention to Cheat: A model on active versus passive academic honesty as perceived by business students * Who is the author or authors' Ismet Anistal; M. Meril Anistal; Robert Elmore * When was the article published' May 2009 * Was the article peer-reviewed' This article was peer reviewed * In what database did you find the article' * Gale Power search * Friend Factor: Mostly all students have peers and friends that live in close distance to them. This can be an issue as their friends could potentially compromise the integrity of their academics online by giving them answers. * Cheating: Cheating is a major problem in regard to online academics in that it is extremely easy to find answers to questions online. * Plagiarism: Plagiarism is also a major issue with online academics. By doing their academic work online, students also have access to anything on the Internet that may be of use to them. This huge amount of resource can lead to plagiarism, or copying texts not written by them. * Tests: Online students could potentially have others take exams for them or write large papers for them. This is a major concern as tests and essays have a huge impact on overall grades in many cases. * Friend Factor: The friend factor would be extremely hard to deal with as these students would be mainly doing their classes online from home. In order to hinder potentially this way of academic dishonesty, systems could be developed to track changing i.p. addresses and multiple logging. Also I could simply take time away from friends and peers that I focus on my academic work and limit social interaction. * Cheating: Systems could be developed to combat cheating that would limit the student’s access to materials that could potentially do the work for him or her. For example, the online course could block certain web pages while the student is logged on. I would avoid cheating by doing each problem myself one step at a time without the direct aid of other sources. * Plagiarism: A plagiarism checker could be used by both faculty and students alike to check if there is any plagiarized material within their work. * Tests: Online tests can be timed. These tests could implement systems that would not allow the student to leave the test page. This would make it extremely hard for a student to cheat on a test. When taking a test I tend to focus on the test only and limit my interaction with others. Tests and exams are important assessments of knowledge and ability within the specific course and test knowledge that should have been learned legitimately throughout the course. *