Cheating is a central theme of a publication called the Journal of College and Character. Its current issue features two studies on the topic. One looks at college honour codes, which are popular in the US and are poised to sprout in the UK and elsewhere. Rodney Arnold, of the College of the Ozarks, together with Barbara Martin, Michael Jinks and Linda Bigby, of the University of Central Missouri, surveyed students at six colleges in the American midwest.
The study asks: “Is there a difference in the level of academic dishonesty between colleges and universities that have incorporated an honour-code system and those that have not?”
The answer is no.
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.