Front cover -- Psychology of Academic Cheating -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 1: The Psychology of Academic Cheating -- PSYCHOLOGY AND CHEATING -- REFERENCES -- PART I: The Anatomy of Cheaters -- Chapter 2: Who Are All These Cheaters? Characteristics of Academically Dishonest Students -- INTRODUCTION -- DEMOGRAPHICS -- ACADEMIC CHARACTERISTICS -- MOTIVATION -- PERSONALITY TRAITS -- A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: How Do Students Cheat? -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS CHEATING? -- HOW DOES CHEATING AFFECT ASSESSMENT? -- DO STUDENTS DIFFER IN THE WAY THEY CHEAT? -- COLLEGE STUDENTS DESCRIBE CHEATING -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CLASSROOM -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- PART II: Achievement Motivation and Cheating -- Chapter 4: Interest and Academic Cheating -- PERSONAL INTEREST, SITUATIONAL INTEREST, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO CHEATING -- THE PRESENT STUDY -- RESULTS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTION AND CLASSROOM CULTURE -- DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A: Student Survey: Academic Dishonesty and Cheating -- Appendix B: An Initial Exploration of Academic Dishonesty (Cheating) at UNLV Interview Prompts -- Chapter 5: The Effects of Personal, Classroom, and School Goal Structures on Academic Cheating -- ACADEMIC SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND CHEATING -- A GOAL ORIENTATION THEORY PERSPECTIVE ON ACADEMIC CHEATING -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: Under Pressure and Underengaged: Motivational Profiles and Academic Cheating in High School -- CHEATING BELIEFS: DEFINITIONS AND JUSTIFICATIONS -- ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTIONS: PEER ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS -- CHEATING BEHAVIOR: TYPES AND PREVALENCE -- ACHIEVEMENT GOALS AND ACADEMIC CHEATING -- METHOD -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Appendix: Scales and Reliabilities.

Chapter 7: Applying Decision Theory to Academic Integrity Decisions -- ABSTRACT -- DECISION THEORIES -- INTEGRITY THEORIES -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- PRACTICAL ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- PART III: Moral and Social Motivations for Dishonesty -- Chapter 8: Reaping What We Sow: Cheating as a Mechanism of Moral Engagement -- MORAL AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT -- EMPHASIZING MORAL STANDARDS -- VERIFYING THE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL ENGAGEMENT -- CHEATING AS A MECHANISM OF MORAL ENGAGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: The "Social" Side of Social Context: Interpersonal and Affiliative Dimensions of Students' Experiences and Academic Dishonesty -- SOCIAL AS INTERPERSONAL: PERCEIVED RELATIONSHIPS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS -- SOCIAL AS PERCEIVED AFFILIATION: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE INSTITUTION -- DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATORS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: Is Cheating Wrong? Students' Reasoning about Academic Dishonesty -- MORAL REASONING AND CHEATING -- WHY IS MORAL REASONING NOT CLEARLY RELATED TO CHEATING? -- NEUTRALIZING, JUSTIFYING, AND CHEATING -- HOW NEUTRALIZING STRATEGIES WORK: AN ATTRIBUTIONAL PERCEPTIVE -- CONCLUSIONS FOR EDUCATORS -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH -- CONCLUSIONS: REASONING ABOUT CHEATING IN A LARGER CONTEXT -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: Prevention and Detection of Cheating -- Chapter 11: Cheating on Tests: Prevalence, Detection, and Implications for Online Testing -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDIES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY -- STATISTICAL INDICES OF ANSWER CONCORDANCE -- ONLINE TESTING -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12: The Pressure to Cheat in a High-Stakes Testing Environment -- INTRODUCTION -- ORIGINS OF THE PRESSURES EXERTED IN NCLB -- PRESSURE IS LINKED TO CHEATING -- ADULT CHEATING -- ADULT CHEATING AND OTHER DUBIOUS BEHAVIOR -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Epilogue -- Index.