Brendan DeCoster

Brendan DeCoster is a Ph.D. candidate in International Education Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His dissertation focuses on practices and understandings of academic integrity among international students in the US, and his research focuses on issues surrounding academic integrity policies, practices, and understandings, as well as language policies, development policies and practices, and measurements of learning.

Posts by Brendan DeCoster

2020 Conference Preview: “Back to reality: Writing assigments, hyperreality, and the ‘problem of plagiarism’”

Brendan DeCoster | January 7, 2020

Recent advances in cheating detection have made it possible to detect a great many more academic integrity violations in higher education than in past times (see here; here; and here). However, one thing has persistently failed to advance, and that is …

Topics: Blog, Editorial, Instructional, integrity

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