Thesis
The culture of surveillance: faculty responses to academic dishonesty in the classroom
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100203
Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the challenges faculty members face when reporting academic integrity violations to the Office of the Dean of Students. Faculty members at research institutions face unique challenges balancing research obligations, teaching obligations, and service commitments and this study aimed to identify how this affects reporting academic integrity violations. The respondents in this study are faculty in liberal arts disciplines at Loyal University (LU), a rural land-grant university with very high research productivity. Using Bertram Gallant's (2008) comprehensive framework, the Four Dimensions, semistructured interviews were conducted to identify the challenges faced by faculty within the Internal, Organizational, Institutional, and Societal Dimensions. The findings of this qualitative study suggest the lack of institutional reward coupled with the cultural shift toward surveillance and away from scholarly development in the classroom are the strongest barriers acknowledged by faculty. Without strong institutional support, creating a culture of integrity in the classroom was not considered a priority when compared against the highly rewarded research production and grant funding. Faculty members fall back on employing surveillance tactics in the classroom to defend the scholarly space. The findings in this study provide a useable framework for practice and have significant directly addressing the barriers to reporting identified as the most challenging, policies can be created to meet the needs of both faculty and students. This study concludes with recommendations for policy and future research.
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- Title
- The culture of surveillance
- Creators
- Meghan Christine Levi Burton
- Contributors
- D. Michael Pavel (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Education, College of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525172601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis