Teaching in Higher Ed

Cheating Lessons

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Catching a student cheating can evoke all sorts of feelings: frustration, disappointment, anger, ambivalence. In episode 19 of Teaching in Higher Ed, Dr. James M. Lang joins me to talk about lessons learned from cheating.

Podcast notes
Our reactions to cheating
  • Disheartening experience
  • Feels personal

    • You’re the last thing on their mind. When a student is cheating… their cheating isn’t an assault on your and your values. – James M. Lang

    • The reality of how many students are cheating in higher ed today

      • [Cheating] is a long term and persistent problem in higher education. – James M. Lang

      The learning environment’s contribution to cheating
      • A positive or a negative contribution
      • The curricula
      • The individual classes
        • Reducing the likelihood for cheating
        • Infrequent, high-stakes assessment
        • Engage in more frequent assessment (with feedback)
        • When students have the opportunity to retrieve knowledge from their mind multiple times, and then do something with it, the more likely they are to remember it.
        • Service learning: helps foster students’ intrinsic motivation
        • Offering unique learning experiences each semester
          • Plagiarism vs cheating
          • Both fall on a spectrum from easy/opportunity cheating to more planned
          • Cheating and how learning works
            • Academic integrity as something that has to be learned
            • Knowledge: What is plagiarism? What’s a citation/source?
            • Skill: Citing sources, etc.
            • Value: Belief that it’s important and it matters
              • Academic integrity campaigns: Involve your students
                • Integrity at Lamar University Poster Project
                Advice for when we inevitably still encounter cheating
                • Step back emotionally
                • Have an educational response
                • Report it when it happens
                  • Other cheating lessons
                  • Self efficacy: Carol Dweck’s research on mindset (video)
                  • Growth or fixed mindset
                  • Fixed mindset
                    • “I can’t write.”
                    • “I can’t do math.”
                    • Fixed mindset were more likely to report that they would cheat the next time
                    • “Learning is hard, but you’re capable of getting better.”
                    • “You say you worked hard on this.”
                    • Early success opportunities
                      • Recommendations

                      Bonni recommends: James Lang’s Fullbright Specialist Program and speaking

                      Jim recommends: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

                      Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gives a TED Talk on Flow: The secret to happiness

                      Lessons for us in our lives, but also for how we approach our teaching

                      Ending Credits

                      Thanks again to James Lang for joining us for this important dialog on Teaching in Higher Ed.

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