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Academic Dishonesty and Testing: How Student Beliefs and Test Settings Impact Decisions to Cheat
Get PDFResearch shows that academic dishonesty in post-secondary education runs particularly high among students in the specific disciplines of engineering, business, and nursing. The authors were interested in how student attitudes towards specific environments for testing might contribute to the prevalence or likelihood of cheating on tests and exams. It was hypothesized that while there would be no difference in their beliefs or attitudes regarding the acceptability of cheating behaviors in unproctored versus proctored settings, students would be more likely to engage in cheating behavior in an unproctored setting. Technology continues to transform the world around us at a rapid pace, allowing faculty to incorporate more technology into the classroom and to educate more students remotely via hybrid and online classes. While these opportunities have their benefits, they also present new challenges. The opportunity for cheating on tests increases, especially when exams are delivered in unproctored environments. An instrument was created to investigate the attitudes and behaviors of first- and second-year undergraduate engineering students while taking tests in both proctored and unproctored environments. In all, 734 students were surveyed from four different institutions of higher education. Students provided both qualitative and quantitative responses to questions related to their beliefs and attitudes toward cheating in today’s socially shareable society. Results indicated that both students’ attitudes and behaviors vary as a result of tests being delivered in a proctored versus unproctored environment
Persuasion and Swearing: How Gender, Status, and Word Choice Influence Attitudes
No full textWe were interested in how speaker characteristics influence the perception of swearing in a persuasive message. Previous research has investigated the use of swearing in persuasive messages and has found that swearing can be seen as a signal that the speaker feels passionately about the topic and can, thus, result in increases in rated persuasion (Scherer & Sagarin, 2006; Baruch, Prouska, Ollier-Malaterre, Bunk, 2017). However, there is also evidence that the level of persuasion and attitudes toward the speaker can be impacted by speaker characteristics, such as race or gender (Jacobi, 2014).
Faculty Sponsors: Elizabeth Arnott-Hill, Or\u27Shaundra Benson, Ken Gra
Eveline’s Lack of Love: An Analysis of “Eveline”
Get PDFThis is a character analysis essay from my English 1101 class. Based off the short story Eveline by James Joyce, I analyzed the main character, Eveline. In my essay I argue that Eveline struggles with the fact that she is less interested in Frank, her fiancé, for love but for a way out of her domestic life at home. Throughout my essay I use different critic\u27s opinions from their own analysis articles to help support and defend my thesis statement.
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Dixon-Kola
