FACULTY RESPONSES TO ACADEMIC DISHONESTY - THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENT HONOR CODES

Cheating among college students has generally been studied from a stud ent perspective. The research discussed here looks at student cheating from a faculty perspective. Utilizing the responses of 789 faculty me mbers at 16 institutions located throughout the United States, it exam ines typical faculty responses to incidents of student cheating and ho w the presence of a student honor code influences faculty responses. T hese findings are compared to student perspectives on how faculty addr ess incidents of cheating using data collected from over 3,000 student s at the same 16 institutions in an earlier phase of this research pro ject.