CHEATER, CHEATER, PUMPKIN EATER: DEALING WITH CHEATING IN A LARGE CLASS

Barb Warner, an Instructor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences (IS & DS) department at the University of South Florida (USF), pondered the difficult situation. Warner’s academic dishonesty policy was very explicit. She had detected two projects submitted by students in her ISM-3011 course that were copies of each other. Her policy was that both parties were to receive disciplinary action. Kathy begged not to lose the points and insisted that she didn’t cheat. She claimed she had done all of her own work. Warner confronted Bobby Busted, owner of the other copy, and he made the same claim.