Cheating on Tests

How To Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It

Gregory J. Cizek

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN: 9780805831443
• eBook ISBN: 9781135672508
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at the problem of cheating on assessments (tests) across all levels of the American educational system. It is organized around seven major objectives that identify this problem by:
1. introducing and defining the problem of cheating and documenting the extent of its occurrence;
2. cataloging and presenting information on the methods used to cheat on tests;
3. providing information on methods useful for preventing cheating;
4. describing methods used to detect cheating once it has occurred;
5. synthesizing what is known about predispositions, correlates, and cultural differences in cheating;
6. summarizing legal issues related to cheating; and
7. illustrating ways in which individuals and institutions respond to cheating.

Cheating on Tests is informally written using a minimum of professional jargon and numerous anecdotes and cases. Technical information is largely confined to end-of-book appendices. It will appeal to all serious stakeholders in our educational system from parents and school board members to professionals directly connected to our schools and the testing industry.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• One: An Introduction to Cheating: The Wrong and the Short of It
• Two: Frequency and Perceptions of Cheating
• Three: How to Cheat: A Compendium of Methods
• Four: Cheating in Postgraduate and Professional Contents
• Five: Cheating in Other Countries and Cultures
• Six: Correlates of Cheating
• Seven: Detecting Cheating on Tests
• Eight: Responding to Cheating
• Nine: Deterring Cheating: An Ounce of Prevention
• Ten: Legal Issues and Cheating
• Eleven: Cheating and the Ethos of Testing
• Appendix A: Statistical Methods for Detecting Cheating
• Appendix B: Academic Integrity Policy Models
• Appendix C: Sample Due Process Policy
• References