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Psychology of academic cheating
Title:
Psychology of academic cheating
JLCTITLE245:
editors, Eric M. Anderman, Tamera B. Murdock.
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007.
Physical Description:
xix, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780123725417
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Contributors -- Foreword / Alfie Kohn -- 1. The psychology of academic cheating / Eric M. Anderman and Tamera B. Murdock -- pt. 1. The anatomy of cheaters -- 2. Who are all these cheaters? : characteristics of academically dishonest students / Angela D. Miller, Tamera B. Murdock, Eric M. Anderman, and Amy L. Poindexter -- 3. How do students cheat? / Linda Garavalia, Elizabeth Olson, Emily Russell, and Leslie Christensen -- pt. 2. Achievement motivation and cheating -- 4. Interest and academic cheating / Gregory Schraw, Lori Olafson, Fred Kuch, Trish Lehman, Stephen Lehman, and Matthew T. McCrudden -- 5. The effects of personal, classroom, and school goal structures on academic cheating / Eric M. Anderman -- 6. Under pressure and underengaged : motivational profiles and academic cheating in high school / Jason M. Stephens and Hunter Gehlbach -- 7. Applying decision theory to academic integrity decisions / David A. Rettinger --

pt. 3. Moral and social motivations for dishonesty -- 8. Reaping what we sow : cheating as a mechanism of moral engagement / Theresa A. Thorkildsen, Courtney J. Golant, and L. Dale Richesin -- 9. The "social" side of social context : interpersonal and affiliative dimensions of students' experiences and academic dishonesty / Lynley H. Anderman, Tierra M. Freeman, and Christian E. Mueller -- 10. Is cheating wrong? students' reasoning about academic dishonesty / Tamera B. Murdock and Jason M. Stephens -- pt. 4. Prevention and detection of cheating -- 11. Cheating on tests : prevalence, detection, and implications for on-line testing / Walter M. Haney and Michael J. Clarke -- 12. The pressure to cheat in a high-stakes testing environment / Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner -- Epilogue / David Callahan -- Index.
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