1. Project Based Learning
as a means to reduce academic cheating

2. Action Research Problem
Cheating has not only taken on all new forms, it
has a whole new definition.
Through my Action Research I hope to do two
things
Better define cheating as our students
perceive it
Find new ways to help teachers overcome
many of the boundaries that force our
students to cheat.
Students today are using the internet to gain
what some may say is an unfair advantage

3. Dr. Guido!
Who Is Dr. Guido?

4. Action Research Problem
Two types of Cheating
Planned and Panic
(Grijalva, Nowell, Kerkvliet 2006)
Project Based Learning
Research into cheating

5. Action Research Problem
WebQuest
Do you believe in God? Why or Why not?
2 parts
3 Assignments and Project
Survey
Cheating
Cycle 1

6. Action Research Problem
WebQuest (110 students)
3 Assignments
0.91% Reported Cheating
20% Teacher Found Cheating
Project
0.91% Reported Cheating
10% Teacher Found Cheating
Conclusion
Cycle 1 Results

7. Action Research Problem
Student Interviews
Defining Cheating
Interviewed 10 students
1. How would you define academic cheating?
2. How would you define plagiarism?
3. Have you ever cheated before?
4. Do you feel if you copy someone’s work, you are
still learning?
5. What where the consequences of your cheating?
Goal
Cycle 2

8. Action Research Problem
Interviewed 10 students
1. How would you define academic cheating?
2. How would you define plagiarism?
3. Have you ever cheated before?
4. Do you feel if you copy someone’s work, you are still learning?
5. What where the consequences of your cheating?
Conclusion
Cycle 2 Results

9. Action Research Problem
Cheating is very often a collaboration to being with.
Project based learning can reduce cheating because it
does two things
Students work together
Students must come up with something creative.
Web 2.0 technologies
Conclusions

10. Project Based Learning
as a means to reduce academic cheating
Questions????