Dive Summary:
- The Chronicle of Higher Education is inviting people to provide data on cheating at higher education institutions.
- The University of Texas at Austin has been posting its cheating data online since 2003, with incidents broken down by demographic information, grade-point average and type of violation.
- UT-Austin uses the data to identify problem areas and to reach out to students and faculty in those areas.
From the article:
... Data-driven efforts to educate faculty members and students remain an anomaly, a fact that puzzles experts like Gary M. Pavela, a researcher of academic ethics who consults with institutions on academic integrity. "If you're a coach, whether you win or lose a game, you pay a lot of attention to the statistics afterwards," he says. "Every campus I know of has some kind of program that promotes and protects academic integrity, but how do they evaluate its effectiveness without statistics?" ...