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- Title: Academic Dishonesty and the Culture of Assessment (Forum on "Honors and Academic Integrity") (Essay)
- Author : Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 207 KB
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Mention the escalation of academic dishonesty and most of us working in education are immediately inclined to whistle for our moral high horse. But too much moralistic tongue-clicking can blind us to the ways in which we who constitute the system contribute to the very malady we lament. For if academic dishonesty is like a disease--and we repeatedly hear it described as an "epidemic"--we may all be carriers, even cultivators, of the virus that causes it. Let me explain. Socrates sought to understand the essence of a thing by asking what all instances of it have in common. This approach is open to well-known objections, but it can have its uses. In the present case, for example, I think it leads to the following important observation: all instances of academic dishonesty are attempts to appear cleverer, more knowledgeable, more skillful, or more industrious than one really is. Buying or copying a term paper, plagiarizing from the Internet, using a crib sheet on an exam, accessing external assistance from beyond the exam room by means of a cell phone, fabricating a lab report, having another student sign one's name on an attendance sheet--all such practices serve this same purpose. The goal is to produce an appearance that is more impressive than the reality.
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