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Interviews about why students cheat: Implications for student success at UCSC Talia Waltzer & Audun Dahl Psychology Department May 31, 2019 Academic Orientations Project (AOP) Baskin School of Engineering (BSOE) Center for Innovations

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Interviews about why students cheat: Implications for student success at UCSC

Talia Waltzer & Audun Dahl

Psychology Department May 31, 2019

Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Academic Orientations Project (AOP) Baskin School of Engineering (BSOE)

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Academic integrity and student success

Harding, Mayhew, Finelli, & Carpenter, 2007; McCabe, 1997; McCabe, Butterfield, & Treviño, 2012; Waltzer, Li, & Dahl, 2017

Integrity is vital for successful education High rates of reported cheating in Engineering Studying why students cheat → scientific foundation for integrity and student success

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Interviews about cheating

N = 124 students recruited from lower-division engineering courses M age = 19.73; 21% women 30-minute interviews Describe a recent possible act of cheating in engineering

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92%

described a potential act in engineering

Why do students sometimes cheat?

“I just wanted to help him. I was sympathetic.” “At this school, you can

nly fail like one

foundations course. And then you’re out of the program.”

80%

did not realize they were cheating

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Implications for promoting integrity

Most students cheat

ccasionally --

But not because they don’t care about integrity Uncertainty & Exceptional pressures Issues for equity

Beasley, 2016; Bertram Gallant, Binkin, & Donohue, 2014; Pennycook, 1996

nly 4% said

cheating is OK

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As a community, how can we effect institutional changes that promote equity in decisions about cheating at UCSC?

sites.google.com/site/taliawaltzer twaltzer@ucsc.edu