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Cheating: Ethics in the Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

James S. Bowman
James S. Bowman*
Affiliation:
University of Wyoming
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This paper deals with one of the most difficult and enduring issues in higher education: cheating. Predictably, the mass media emphasizes its more sensational aspects such as cheating scandals at military academies and commercial term paper mills. Available academic studies, however, document that classroom dishonesty is hardly an isolated phenomenon. Yet, public and campus concern shifts rapidly from indignation to inattention, leaving the problem much as it was.

Type
Research Article
Information
News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 29 , Spring 1981 , pp. 16 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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Footnotes

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The author wishes to express his appreciation to Sami G. Hajjar, Michael J. Horan, and Charlotte Davis for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. He is also pleased to acknowledge the financial support of the Government Research Bureau.

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