In a child’s early youth, their minds are like brand new sponges, ready and willing to soak up information to learn all about the new life. Younger or older, the pressure of life begins to sink in on them. This pressure desperately searches for an outlet, and cheating is one of the outlets. The concept of cheating is never dwelt on in school, the teacher will just mention to the class not to look onto your neighbor’s paper, but doesn’t spend time to reinforce the severity of cheating in school. Picture a middle schooler, who must go to school, attend club meetings, participate in basketball practice, study for the upcoming test, finish their homework and get to bed by 9pm to do it all over again. At times, this schedule can feel more overwhelming …show more content…
Cheating on a test is common in elementary students. The teachers for younger kids say to switch papers with their neighbor but, if the neighbor is their “friend”, the most common outcome is that the wrong answers will be checked right. The youngsters know that poor grades have consequences from their parents so, in fear, the students cheat for each other to protect themselves. According to the article "Cheating students: how our schools fail the humanistic vision of education.", Tommy Raskin voiced “All of them cheated on a test we took shortly thereafter, leaving the teacher with the false impression that they understood what was being taught.” (Raskin) This nature will only bring about consequences when the child doesn’t know how to do the work and start the cycle of cheating to get by. Cheating on examinations will only harm the examinee since, the instructor will not know if the child needs help or not. These young kids don’t know how awful fostering this habit is and how important it is to abort these habits, as soon as possible. Plus, the high stakes testing puts pressure on the students, making them feel even further away from a successful life. Tests, such as the SAT and ACT, are important to score high on to get into the college the student desires. These examinations have complex word play that cause the ones that are not cautious to do poorly, thus reducing or ruining their chances at …show more content…
The advancing technology of smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and more the rise in cheating has risen higher than ever. With the public access to the internet, papers and assignments can be done by paying someone across the globe around twenty dollars for a grade. According to the article “Cheat your heart out: with a rise in shrinking technology and online classes, it's easier than ever to skip studying.", Teddi Fishman vocalizes “For as low as $20, pre-written or commissioned essays are widely available on essay mills such as BestEssays.com. In theory, these should be flagged by TurnItIn.com, a plagiarism-checking system used by many universities. But sneaky students have found new ways to get around the software: They save their essays in JPEG form, insert invisible periods between every word, then translate the whole thing into another language, then back into English--"anything that will confuse the checker.” (Fishman) Society has come to the point where buying grades are now socially acceptable. Whatever you can’t do, give it to someone else and pay them for it. Students can even send messages and emails to other students during tests now. The younger generation must know that these gifts of technology should not be used for cheating. Even though, they see other students using them for ill reasons, the younger ones should know that the appliances are to be used as tools to help you succeed.
In College, high school, and middle school cheating has become a common occurrence on assignments of all types and varying difficulty by students in all levels and types of classes. So how exactly do all these students cheat? Even more curious, why do so many of them go on to cheat even though they understand that it is wrong and could have dire consequences if they are caught. What are the consequences of cheating other than those that are disciplinary? The four types of cheaters can be classified as “addicts”, “desperados”, “bandwagoners”, and “subconscious”.
That stomach churning feeling of guilt for many seems to appear as a small price to pay when completing an act of academic dishonesty. Colleen Wenke wrote an essay on cheating eighteen years ago called “Too Much Pressure”. In the past fifty years, the number of students who admit to cheating has increased fifty to seventy percent(Gaffe). Many people wonder what leads the students to make this unjust decision. Today, the reason for a rise in cheaters is because of how easy it has become, leading many students to the false conclusion that they aren’t breaking any rules; It is simply viewed as a shortcut to success in the classroom and beyond.
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Some students argue that cheating is the easiest, and the best way to get a good grade. For example, you’re up all night doing homework for other classes, but you forgot to study for this one quiz you will have early in the morning for your first period class. You start panicking heavily, becau... ... middle of paper ... ...
Cheating means acting dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain a benefit, in achieving a task or acing an exam. Many factors can affect why many students choose to cheat. First, the temptation of being able to take just a few lines from the Internet can be convincing. Second, achieving better grades, Students will tend to cheat in various ways to give themselves a boost grade in a class. Third, work load and pressure, Students will turn to cheating to lighten the homework load which often takes many hours to complete. In this ted talk, Dan Ariely mentioned two common reasons for his argument. According to Dan Ariely, people tend to cheat if they justify their reason to do so, or when they are surrounded by people who also cheat. And also to gain benefit in a test students can tend to cheat.
How bad has cheating become over the years, the numbers in some cases are mind-boggling. In today’s day and age the amount of college students cheating is numbered to have maintain a steady figure of about 75 percent. (Lang, 2013) Cheating has been around since the beginning of time, some of the reasons behind most of the prolific cheaters are centered on what seems to be three main issues plaguing our society. Cheaters be it young or old, all seem to have what I call the “Big Three” in common. In my research on cheating, there were three things that continued to stick out, such as; procrastinating, the pressure to make the grade and it is easier to cheat rather then to do your own work. To the answer the question why college students cheat, we must first understand why, in order to find a solution on how to help avoid this continuing going forward. After reading this paper you will see that cheating has become prevalent in college, caused by a need to get better grades with less original work being done eventually the ends don't justify the means.
Another cause as to why students cheat on tests is because of the testing process. A student that notices other students cheating makes th...
Situations of cheating have seemed to become more and more commonplace when the student is bored by the subject material, poor teaching and or feels they have no use for the knowledge. Kohn even states in his article, “cheating is more common when students experience the academic tasks they’ve been given as boring, irrelevant, or overwhelming.” This infers that if a student were attending a school interested in learning about art, the student maybe more inclined to cheat in a business accounting class due to the fact the student would find the subject material irrelevant to them and their future. Students seem to be less inclined to cheat and it “is relatively rare in classrooms where the learning is genuinely engaging and meaningful to students and where a commitment to exploring significant ideas hasn’t been eclipsed by a single-minded emphasis on “rigor”” (Kohn). To simplify everything mentioned above; students are inclined to cheat in school when they are disinterested in the subject material and or are overwhelmed by in assignment or finally the result in a poor teacher. Everyone who has attended school can relate to this in some way or another, most people do not want to retain knowledge they have no interest in or use for in their
Many students are using technology to cheat because they are able to find answers quickly online by just searching for them. Cheating is increasing in the United States at higher rates because many of the students in high school or in college have to deal with different responsibilities, pressure, and loads of different types of work. Richard Perez Peña states in “Studies Find More Students Cheating,” “Internet access has made cheating easier, enabling students to connect instantly with answers, friends to consult and works to plagiarize.” Plagiarism, which means using a work of someone else as if it were yours, is the most common form of cheating in high school and in college. Plagiarism occurs by not citing a source correctly or by not putting the proper quotation marks on a quote that you borrow to state your point. Some students don’t even know what plagiarism is, and they do it using the technology that we have today. Therefore, Julie Rasicot states, “High schools and teachers should make clear what constitutes plagiarism, how to avoid it and what the consequences will be if students are caught.” If students are not informed about plagiarism, then they tend to use technology as an easy way to do an assignment, which prevents them from learning. On the other hand, many professors have argued that the technology is developing
Nowadays, students have a multitude of ways to cheat simply from technology and more clever ideas over time. This makes cheating easier and people tend to take the easy road if possible. The easy road is not always the best road though. Cheating takes education from all students participating because they tend not to learn the material if it is simply copied and not comprehended. Students cheat because it is more convenient at the time for them.
Academic knowledge is the basis on which future prosperity, and financial security has been determined. As a consequence, students feel inclined to perform above average in school. Now, as students perform less and less, they sink to obtain good grades by cheating. This method to acquire the desired grades will only harm the student, instead of the imagined result. Prompted by a child’s inability to perform basic tasks throughout his education , academic cheating spawns numerous negative consequences.
Everyone has cheated on something at some point in their life, whether it is in a game, on a test, or in a relationship, everyone has done it. Cheating is anything that involves breaking a rule, or getting an unfair advantage. Schools are one of the most popular places people cheat. Many people down play cheating and use excuses like, “He shouldn’t have let me see his paper,” or, “I am just using my resources wisely.” But, what causes people to cheat? Students cheat in school because of laziness, high standards or pressure to do well, and misunderstanding.
Over the past decade or so, we have seen a huge increase in cheating in our schools. The introduction of the Internet into most homes and schools and other technological advances are some of the main causes. Students are misusing the new technologies to find new and more high tech ways to cheat. During testing students are receiving answers via text messaging devices, they are downloading notes to iPods and graphing calculators, they are picture messaging exams with their mobile phones, and they are even hiring look-alike experts to take the exams for them. They can use the internet to easily plagiarize a paper; they can pay a company to write the paper for them, they can even pay to use a prewritten paper from a database. The internet and technology are making it easier and easier for students to cheat, and as technology continues to advance, we will continue to see a rapid rise in cheating.
Modern students face many pressures for academic success. They are often unwilling to disappoint their parents or spouses. Some fear that not cheating will weaken a student’s ability to compete with their peers. They rationalize their unethical behavior, unwilling to accept a poor grade, consequently justifying cheating as the only means to that end.
"I’m preparing for the real world. Business is unethical. Cheating is just good training. I’ll be better able to handle what’s put at me when I get out." "‘Oh, it’ll only be this once’ or ‘Everyone else does it, so why shouldn’t I?’" Sly glances at a neighbor’s work, an open book on the lap, or even high-technology methods—the resources of the cheater are many and varied. Whatever the methods, there are many statements like those above to justify cheating. For example, in the United States, surveys show that more than half of all students cheat, or have cheated, during their school years.