Dr. Cheryl Kier
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List of Recommendations and Strategies for a Balanced Approach to Supporting Academic Integrity
(2023)Maintaining academic integrity is a growing concern for higher education, increasingly so due to the pivot to remote learning in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We canvassed students, faculty, and tutors at an ... -
The Well-being of Adults who were Raised by Grandparents.
(2013-11-09)Presented in Poster Session 12 on "Parenting and Grandparenting" at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 75th Conference, San Antonio, November 6-9, 2013. -
Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education, Part II
(2014-02-06)Earlier research found only about half of 423 university psychology students correctly answered four questions involving recognizing plagiarism, and only a minority was able to rephrase a passage without producing plagiarized ... -
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
(2013-03-05)This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half ... -
Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital.
(2011-06)After four decades of research, scholars of happiness continue to debate its causes. While it is generally agreed that a combination of internal and external factors play a role, predicting happiness well remains a ... -
Music preferences and young people's attitudes towards spending and saving.
(2010-12)We aimed to find patterns among young people’s music preferences in relation to their attitudes towards saving or spending money. Previous research found that certain music genres (e.g. rap and dance) are associated with ...