Strategies to promote a climate of academic integrity and minimize student cheating and plagiarism

Journal of Allied Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Scanlan, Craig L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECEPTION; EDUCATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATION; PUBLISHING; RECUMBENCY; SOCIAL CONTROL; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; DECEPTION; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; PLAGIARISM; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749356759     PISSN: 00907421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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