Protecting Academic Integrity: Student Assessment in the Online Environment 1 |Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, Volume 36, 2009 PROTECTING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: STUDENT ASSESSMENT IN THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT Helen Anderson-Cruz San Diego State University Janet Duck The Pennsylvania State University Richard G. Platt University of West Florida Gretchen N. Vik San Diego State University PANEL DISCUSSION As state education budgets decease with no corresponding decrease in enrollment, more schools are adding more on-line courses. On-line courses have the advantages of flexible scheduling, greater access for students, and, eventually, when development costs can average out over time, cost effectiveness. A significant disadvantage, however, is that lapses in academic integrity can lead to big problems with cheating, as happened to Florida State University in December 2007. National headlines trumpeted the problems with the academic integrity of an online course when it involved cheating by large numbers of students including more than two dozen FSU football players just before a bowl game. The big question is how to protect academic integrity in the online environment without impinging upon faculty academic freedom. The four panelists all have experience teaching courses in online environments where professor and student do not meet face to face. The panel will discuss the issues and strategies for maintaining academic integrity in online classes when personal observation is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Some potential topics: • Secure systems available • Questions that identify students in mid-exam • Timed exams • Proctors or cameras • Many test questions so each gets fewer points • Few questions, submit after each answer • Essay exams • Special cautions with ESL students • On-line thesis submission with draft sections Table of Contents Volume 36, 2009 Protecting Academic Integrity: Student Assessment In The Online Environment Pedagogical Shift: Teaching Report Writing For Accountants Online Increasing Student Learning In An Investment Management Course Through The Innovative Use Of Experiential Learning Pedagogy A Moral Development Unit For Business Courses Dividing Up Grandma’s Things: A Multifaceted Exercise In Critical Thinking Application Of Haekel’s Thesis To ABSEL Development Linking Stories With On-Line Threaded Discussions For Critical Thinking In Management Curriculum Why Have We Neglected Vicarious Experiential Learning? A Triadic Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Enhancing The Efficacy Of Experiential Learning Movement Toward Increased Student Roles In The Design Of Experiential Exercises Ready-Mix Concrete Company: An Experiential Exercise In Management Theory Using Portfolio Theory In A General Management Simulation An Experimental Analysis Of Advertising Strategies And Advertising The Relationship Between Goal Orientation And Simulation Performance With Attitude Change And Perceived Learning Beyond The Profitable-Product Death Spiral: Managing Product Mix In An Environment Of Constrained Resources Online Marketing Control With The Strategic Business Unit Analysis Package Beat The Market Game Creating Decision Support Systems In Business Simulation Games The Use Of Computer-Assisted, Interactive Role-Play Simulation In China Asia Marketing: An International Business Game An Empirical Test Of “Behavioral Immersion” In Experiential Learning Existing And Emerging Business Simulation-Game Design Movements Computerized Business Simulations: A Systems Dynamics Process Service Launch Evaluating Business Plans In A Simulation Environment Teaching Software Development By Means Of A Classroom Game: The Software Development Game Group Decision Experiments Using Business Game - Problem Solving With Conflict Luna: A Role Play Game For Learning Incoterms 2000 Entrepreneurship: A Game Of Risk And Reward Phase I -- The Search For Opportunity The Wee Game: A Pre-Game Learning Inhibitors In Business Simulations And Games New Version Of An Old Simulation Helps Build A Perfect Capstone Course Project Competitor: A Simulation Game For Project Management With 2 Models And 2 Modes Mitigating The Winner’s Curse In The Auction Market Of A Computer-Assisted Business Gaming Simulation Evaluation Of Collaborative Filtering By Agent-Based Simulation Considering Market Environment Marketing Simulation Game Decision Making Experience And Its Impact On Indecisiveness Among Introductory Marketing Students Individual And Organizational Learning In A Top Management Game In Pursuit Of Stockholder Value: Reinforcing Core Concepts In A Business Strategy Simulation With A “Shadow” Stock Market Competition The Simplicity Paradox: Another Look At Complexity In Design Of Simulations And Experiential Exercises In Search Of The Ethnocentric Consumer: Experiencing “Laddering” Research In International Advertising The Paradise Islands Revisited: Trouble In Paradise Developing And Assessing Student Information Literacy Competency Do First Mover Advantages Exist In Competitive Board Games: The Importance Of Zugzwang The Natural Debriefing Approach: A Case In A Simple Business Game Pursued For Perfect Communications New Product Development Simulation Dominance In On Line Business Games Competitions Cooperative Business Game With Framing Effect Experiential Exercises In The Online Environment Enhancing Web-Based Simulations With Game Elements For Increased Engagement The Ginseng Game Experience Business Using a Simple Business Simulation