Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call

By Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss

Book Overview

The Internet, high-tech calculators, and other technological advances have made student cheating easier and more common than ever before. This book helps you put a stop to high-tech and more traditional low-tech forms of cheating and plagiarism. Learn to recognize the danger signs for cheating and how to identify material that has been copied. Sample policies for developing academic integrity, reproducible lessons for students and faculty, and lists of helpful online and print resources are just some of the features of this important guide. A must read for concerned educators, administrators, and parents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156308841X
• ISBN13: 9781563088414
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 12

Customer Reviews

parent and teacher valuable guide

Internet literacy is a great gift in learning but students must learn to reference properly. As a teacher I learned valuable information about the more overt forms of plagiariasm that show up in classroom assignments; as a parent I learned what to look for when my child takes the easy way out instead of coming up with his own ideas. Very useful book!

Information parents need BEFORE their child cheats

I never realized there were so many different ways to cheat on tests in school or to use the Internet to steal somebody else's paper to hand in instead of writing your own. And I had no idea that such a high percentage of students cheat and plagiarize. Now I know what clues to watch for to be sure my son is doing his own work in middle school. I also like the guidelines that tell me how to help my son do his homework and school projects without our being dishonest about it. There are good suggestions for working effectively with school administrators and teachers. Many of the chapters list web sites that have additional information on the chapter's topic. Any parent of a middle school or high school student will learn a lot from this book.