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Dear colleagues

I wish to study the effects of an intervention on student integrity, and would like to know if anyone can point me in the direction of:

1. seminal articles on undergraduate student integrity or and/or cheating

2. measures of integrity that we can realistically expect students to respond to honestly!

I have two classes doing the same course (on leadership) and students are randomly allocated to either of the classes – hence, a control and an experimental group.

The class assessment involves quizzes and team activities based on case scenarios.

Both the quiz question sheets and the case scenarios are to be returned to me at the end of the assessment, but I'm very aware that students might photograph or just write down important answers for sharing with anyone they know in the next class (within semesters, or even across semesters).

I would like to use pre-test - post-test measures of integrity at the beginning of semester and at the end of semester, with items like

Pre-test:

1) If I had the chance, I would inform students in other classes about the assessment items in our class

Post-test:

2) I thought about informing students in the other class about the assessment items from our class, but I did not do so

3) I did inform students in the other class about the assessment items from our class

However, even with passionate declarations of anonymity (and the post-test survey put on-line after the final assessment results are released, as well as at end-of-semester), I'm still doubtful of getting honest responses!

Any suggestions about how to promote honest answers to a survey on integrity would be most welcome!

Cheers,

Stewart

Nurturing Global Leaders for a Sustainable World