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GTA Academic Integrity Survey
Preliminary Report*

Qualitative Faculty Comments (Final Open-ended Question
(quoted as written with no editing)

• A GTA orientation before starting to teach at KSU could serve to explain the Honor System and ways to prevent cheating (like question 4 of this survey).



• Even though the honor code is set in place, I do not believe students take it very seriously.  It is difficult to draw the line between allowing people a second chance and being able to exercise control of the cheating situation.  Until some precedents or bright line tests are established, the students will continue to not take the cheating policies seriously.



• I think we should have more opportunities to talk about it.



• It seems that students at this university do not take cheating seriously.  They do not expect any action to be taken if they are suspected of cheating.  Where I went to school, it was common knowledge that if you were caught cheating, you were expelled.  That harsh environment greatly discouraged any motivation to cheat, because the penalty was so harsh.  The problem with this type of policy is that the burden of proof to provide evidence lays on the person overseeing the test/assignment, and without an actual document, "cheat sheet", one persons word against another is insufficient.  Therefore many forms of cheating can still go on.  However, creating the illusion of a harsh environment may help to discourage cheating.



• It would be nice if the professors who were actually in charge of the classes took cheating a little more seriously.  I know of many times when graduate students have caught people cheating and they have told the professor, but the professor doesn't do anything.  That just makes us not care about it either, even if we think cheating is wrong, because there is no point in trying to catch cheaters if nothing is done about it.



• Nil



• None



• remind them more of what they have signed and what the disaplinary action will be maybe hang signs to remind them in classrooms especially those with lots of freshman and sophmore students



• Some of the faculty just do not care, particularly in large introductory lecture classes.



• Students make up poor excuses all the time to get extensions on assignments or to make up work for classes that they missed and it is such a hassle for the insturctors.  I would like to see a campus-wide policy where the lowest score is always dropped.  That way, no excuses would need to be made about missing class, ever.  If someone has to miss a class for a legitimate family or personal emergency, they will not be punished because the lowest grade is dropped.  It is just too hard to sift through legitimate excuses and those that are made up.

*Donald L. McCabe. 2003 Spring Semester Academic Integrity Survey Study conducted at Kansas State University.