Patricia -
I did once discover in a disturbing roundabout way that a student had
fabricated the data for her Experimental Psychology project. She had claimed
to have worked on data collection at an offcampus site with a certain person
who helps the department's students with internship projects. In later
casual conversation with that person one of our faculty discovered that the
student had in fact never even talked with that person, at all, ever.
I was only peripherally involved with the case (I wasn't the course
instructor), but it was a great surprise to me, and of course very
disappointing. As sad as anything about the situation was the fact that the
student chose to do that rather than to ask us for help with her data
collection.
Paul Smith
Chair, Department of Psychology
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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From: Tricia Keith-Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:34 PM
Subject: Student Misconduct in Research
> Hello Tipsters,
>
> Do any of you know of any resources about research ethical infractions
> (including scientific misconduct, such as presenting data on assigned
> projects that were never actually collected)? I have searched several
> literature data bases and find almost nothing. This seems unusual given
the
> many hundreds of articles on college cheating (plagiarism and exams).
>
> Also, have any of you attempted to assess whether your students' data is
> "genuine" and, if so, what did you find out?
>
> Thanks for any info or ideas you can provide.
>
> Patricia Keith-Spiegel
>
>
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