Research Guides: Faculty Development Services Research Guide: Academic Integrity Toolbox

Rowan-Cabarrus' Library Toolkit for Academic Integrity

The Rowan-Cabarrus Library's Academic Integrity Tools include:

Plagiarism/Integrating Sources Research Guide
Zoom Workshops or Classroom Assistance
Plagiarism Video
Plagiarism Tutorial with Embeddable Quiz
Research Guides for APA and MLA Citations

The Library offers resources to help students successfully find, access, and integrate sources into student assignments as well as resources to help instructors successfully teach students the importance of academic integrity.

For more information on how to integrate Library resources into your class or how to navigate our webpage and resources, please contact laurie.robb@rccc.edu.

Helpful Databases

Education Database
Research on primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
ERIC (Education)
Digests from education-related journals. Provides access to Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
ProQuest Central
This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.

Articles about Academic Integrity

Plagiarism in the Community College Classroom
A 2016 report from the Journal of Virginia Community Colleges.
Academic entitlement and its relationship with perception of cheating ethics
Dealing with plagiarism in the academic community: emotional engagement and moral distress
Cheating is in the Eye of the Beholder: an Evolving Understanding of Academic Misconduct
Cheaters Should Never Win: Eliminating the Benefits of Cheating
The Case for Consequences for Academic Dishonesty.
The author justifies his penalty of failing a college student for academic dishonesty. He says that teachers must teach the significance of ethical behavior. Ethics, integrity, and honesty are regarded seriously and professional punishments for misconduct are severe in the professional worlds that students will be working into.
Academic Integrity: Online Classes Compared to Face-to-Face Classes
Trends toward an increase in online courses suggest the need for more research on differing levels of cheating and other acts of academic disintegrity as compared to face-to-face classes.

e-Books and Books

Cheating in College by Donald L. McCabe; Linda K. Treviño; Kenneth D. Butterfield
ISBN: 9781421407166
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
With academic dishonesty on the rise, this book explains why students cheat, how to foster integrity, and why it matters.
My Word! by Susan Debra Blum
ISBN: 9780801447631
Publication Date: 2009-01-29
In a book that dismisses hand-wringing in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and act, Susan D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily, side by side in the classroom.
Cheating Lessons by James M. Lang
ISBN: 9780674724631
Publication Date: 2013-09-02
Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today's students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society.

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