This meeting held on June 30 had 5 faculty members in attendance

During this session we discussed chapters 2 & 3 of the book, Cheating Lessons by James Lang.

We again met in ZOOM, and had one problem with the program crashing 3/4 of the way through the meeting.  Before this happened we focused on the discussion of chapter 2, Case Studies in the History of Cheating. Lang talks about the environmental factors that may influence people to cheat.  He begins with the Ancient Olympics, discusses the Chinese Civil service exams and more modern days cheating examples such as the widespread cheating uncovered in Georgia, not by students but by their teachers as a result of the No Child Left Behind program during the Bush Presidency.

Lang Concludes there are 4 factors that influence or pressure people to cheat. These are:

(1) Emphasis on performance

(2) High Stakes riding on the outcome

(3) Extrinsic motivation for success

(4) Low expectation of success.

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