A 50-year Retrospective on Academic Integrity and Computer Ethics in CS Education

People face multiple decisions that have ethical dimensions and are often unable to resolve appropriately those ethical dilemmas in the use of the cyberspace. Individuals find it difficult to explain the rationale behind their moral judgments in their interactions and access to digital content. Identifying ethical and moral orientation that prompts acceptable or unacceptable ethical judgments is an important factor in cyber ethics. The goal of this study is to employ three prominent ethical theories to predict and explain cyber ethical judgements in terms of computer ethics, privacy, intellectual property rights, and academic integrity. The study develops conceptual and predictive models to test a set of hypotheses. The results show consequential ethics as the most significant predictor of computer ethics, cyber privacy, and academic integrity. Deontological ethics most significantly predict intellectual property rights but is not a significant predictor of academic integrity.

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Academic integrity and the HPI employee reliability scale

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e518532013-089 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer L. Kisamore ◽

I. M. Jawahar ◽

Thomas H. Stone

Keyword(s):

Academic Integrity

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Computer Ethics as a Field of Applied Ethics

Journal of Information Ethics ◽

10.3172/jie.21.2.52 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 52-70

Author(s):

Herman T. Tavani

Keyword(s):

Applied Ethics ◽

Computer Ethics

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Authoritarianism and anonymity

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society ◽

10.1145/3447913.3447926 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 19-27

Author(s):

Michael Heron ◽

Pauline Belford

Keyword(s):

Computer Ethics ◽

Teaching Tool ◽

Academic Context ◽

Modern Computer ◽

Culture Of Fear ◽

Multiple Groups ◽

The University ◽

Witch Hunts

The Scandal in Academia [32] [33] [34] [35] is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein [17] [18] it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trailed and evaluated as a teaching tool by the authors [36] and with multiple groups since then. However its utility as a general resource is limited without the academic context that supports deeper investigation of the material. It is to address this issue that the authors offer this commentary on the Scandal, with a focus on the ninth and tenth newspaper items presented within. Specifically these are Culture of Fear and Nepotism at University and Witch-Hunts at the University - IT Crackdown Causes Criticisms.

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Effects of Trust and Threat Messaging on Academic Cheating: A Field Study

Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/0956797620977513 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095679762097751

Author(s):

Li Zhao ◽

Jiaxin Zheng ◽

Haiying Mao ◽

Xinyi Yu ◽

Jiacheng Ye ◽

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Keyword(s):

Field Study ◽

Academic Integrity ◽

Large Scale ◽

Theoretical Foundation ◽

Empirical Evaluation ◽

Psychological Theory ◽

Field Studies ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Academic Cheating ◽

College Classrooms

Morality-based interventions designed to promote academic integrity are being used by educational institutions around the world. Although many such approaches have a strong theoretical foundation and are supported by laboratory-based evidence, they often have not been subjected to rigorous empirical evaluation in real-world contexts. In a naturalistic field study ( N = 296), we evaluated a recent research-inspired classroom innovation in which students are told, just prior to taking an unproctored exam, that they are trusted to act with integrity. Four university classes were assigned to a proctored exam or one of three types of unproctored exam. Students who took unproctored exams cheated significantly more, which suggests that it may be premature to implement this approach in college classrooms. These findings point to the importance of conducting ecologically valid and well-controlled field studies that translate psychological theory into practice when introducing large-scale educational reforms.

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