Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Tool Kit for Secondary Schools<\/em>, examines Stephen\u2019s research with co-author David B. Wangaard, E.D., from their three-year intervention project, Achieving with Integrity.<\/p>\nThe empirical information from their analysis of six Connecticut high schools further justifies the need for aid in scholastic honesty improvement and establishes academic integrity as a priority.<\/p>\n
According to Stephens in a recent NPR interview, \u201cWhere We Live: Cheating Schools,\u201d nine out of 10 students admit to some form of cheating in the previous year, in which half view their behavior as morally wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had an epidemic in academic dishonesty for really decades now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Stephens\u2019 book strives to reverse this trend by discussing plagiarism, providing tactics to improve students\u2019 understanding of cheating, as well as suggesting policies and resources to abide by as means of constructing ethical standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem itself I think is just symptomatic of what we\u2019ve done with education over the past literally 30 years for children, but the past 10 under No Child Left Behind, and that is to make it a high stakes game,\u201d Stephens said in his interview. \u201cThis kind of cheating becomes inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephens and his colleague believe cheating issues are routed in the higher pressures of student performance success.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think of it as the soil and not the seed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The book provides school leaders and teachers the support needed to develop ethical learning communities to promote academic engagement and honesty.<\/p>\n
One of\u00a0Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0most important features is the instruction plan for establishing an Academic Integrity Committee through the collaboration of teachers, students, administrators and parents.<\/p>\nIt is the authors\u2019 hope that by implementing a climate of diligence and probity, there will be a greater resistance for cheating and therefore more honest learning.<\/p>\n
At the Neag School, Stephens teaches classes on human learning, academic motivation and research methods. His fieldwork focuses on moral development during adolescence with Stephens\u2019 primary interest being the normative dishonest behavior as it is related to cheating.<\/p>\n
For more information about the book, contact Dr. Stephens at\u00a0jason.stephens@uconn.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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