Research On Prevention And Management Of American College Students' Academic Dishonesty

The prevention and management of college students'academic dishonesty is an important researching field in college students'moral education, and one of the highly concerned greatly realistic problem in today's academia. To study on this problem has both theoretic and practical significance. This paper studies on the prevention and management of college students'academic dishonesty in USA. After expatiates the definitions, types, correlative factors, as well as reasons of college students'academic dishonesty in USA, this paper reviews and analyses how do American colleges and universities prevent students'academic dishonesty in advance, detect and manage students'academic dishonesty afterwards, as well as how do the factors out of campus participate in the prevention and management. Then this paper sums up the characteristics of the prevention and management pattern of American college students'academic dishonesty, and analyses the advantages and disadvantages of this pattern from social, historical and cultural angle of view, as well as from moral education theories. On this basic, the enlightenments to our country's academic integrity construction are educed.In the first part, sticking to the guidance of Marxism, this paper analyses some elementary theoretical issues. This paper makes a historical review to the advancing and using of the concept of"academic dishonesty"in USA, and makes definitions to college students'academic dishonesty and correlative concepts. On this basic, this paper concludes the types, prevalence, correlative factors, as well as reasons of college students'academic dishonesty in USA.In the second part, this paper reviews specific measure to prevent and manage college students'academic dishonesty in USA. Firstly, the prevention and management is realized by means of cultivating academic integrity ethos, as well as establishing and implementing academic integrity policies, in which the honor code is an acknowledged effective strategy to create academic integrity ethos. Secondly, the detection to the evidence of students'academic dishonesty esp. plagiarism behavior is realized by searching for cheating evidence, along with tracing the plagiarizing paper. Dealing with college students'academic dishonesty is according to the due procedure. Thirdly, the participating of American government esp. ORI, the participating of judicial procedure, as well as the acts of academic institutions, all have positive effects to promote college students'academic integrity.In the third part, this paper summarizes the characteristics of the prevention and management pattern of American college students'academic dishonesty, and analyses the experiences of the prevention and management of college students'academic dishonesty in USA from visual angle of moral education, as well as from the influences of historical changes of moral education ideas and the mainstreams of moral education theories to the prevention and management pattern of American college students'academic dishonesty. At the same time, this paper expatiates the problem of this pattern and its root in moral education, as well as the challenges that the internet brings.In the last part, this paper summarizes the present situation of our country's college students academic integrity construction, and reaches some enlightenments to us: Make college academic integrity policy perfect. Respect students'status for self-determination, bring students into academic community. Strengthen academic moral structure of college teachers and exert teachers'function of example.Exert academic institutions'function in promoting college students'academic integrity. Exploit new techniques to deal with the challenges from Internet. Strengthen the research on problem of college students'academic integrity.