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WHAT TO DO ABOUT CHEATING

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This article by Stanford University doctoral student Jason Stephens examines the phenomenon of cheating among high school students. Stephens, part of a research team at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching studying moral and civic education, surveyed a sample of high school students and found that a remarkably high percentage of students cheat. He also found that those students expressed little remorse over what they had done. This essay in "Carnegie Perspectives" responds to the question: What is the significance of this behavior and what can be done? One conclusion: "The best ways to reduce cheating are all about good teaching."

Citation: Stephens, J. (2004). Justice or just us? What to do about cheating. Retrieved from the Carnegie Foundation on March 10, 2008. Website: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/sub.asp?key=245&subkey=577

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David Chadwell is a teacher "interested in getting students to do more work and be more interested in their work." In this paper presented at an American Educational Research Association conference, Chadwell describes his efforts to meet this challenge by adopting Problem Based Learning as "a viable option" for a year long learning experience. As part of Chadwell's Civilization Project, each student is required "to develop his or her own unique civilization built from student selected features of the civilizations we study. Students become active participants using knowledge and creating something personal and meaningful. However the project is more than a collective portfolio. The created civilizations evolve into dynamic centers as students make decisions creating a government, developing an economy, and fostering a culture." Chadwell shares his action research on the project, including student completion rates of assignments, and describes how the elements of a year long PBL experience can inform teachers "as they design assignments and curriculum utilizing imbedded motivational components." (At the Teacher Quality Collaborative website)

Chadwell, D. (2003). Motivating your students in a yearlong PBL experience. AERA annual conference (22 Apr 2003). Retrieved from the Teacher Quality Collaborative 16 Apr 2008. Link: http://tqc.ed.sc.edu/chadwell_AERA2.html

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Lesson study is no longer "foreign" to teachers in the U.S., who are increasingly adopting the practice themselves. But the authors of this KAPPAN article (March 2004) are finding that American teachers may lack the "nuanced understanding" that is necessary to use lesson study in the way that it was intended. They examine the "concerns, misconceptions, and nuances" of Japanese Lesson Study and offer a plan you can use to help teachers overcome basic obstacles and successfully deepen their work. 

Citation: Chokshi, S. & Fernandez, C. (2004). Challenges to importing Japanese lesson study: Concerns, misconceptions and nuances. Retrieved from Phi Delta Kappan on March 7, 2008. Website: http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0403cho.htm

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Curriculum planners often focus their work on "preparing students for the future." It's the wrong focus, says Elliot Eisner in this Educational Leadership article (Dec/Jan 2004). "Projections about lifestyles, social arrangements, and problems that will be encountered are notoriously difficult," Eisner says. "If an unknowable future is not a sound basis on which to plan curriculum and instruction, then what is? From my perspective, we can best prepare students for the future by enabling them to deal effectively with the present." Eisner proposes "an education process that is genuinely meaningful to students, challenging them with problems and ideas that they find both interesting and intellectually demanding." Citation: Eisner, E. (2003). Preparing for Today and Tomorrow. Retrieved June 13, 2007, from Eduational Leadership. Web site: http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.459dee008f99653fb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journaltypeheaderimage=%2FASCD%2Fimages%2Fmultifiles%2Fpublications%2Felmast.gif&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_viewID=article_view&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journalmoid=a798bf8f07eaff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805.

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