"People will take other people's materials and pass it on as theirs. I'm numb to it already. I'll cheat to get by” (http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132376). At school cheating has become the usual. Me personally the second I walk into my first period class I have at least 3 students ask me for homework so that they can copy it.
A student from Paris (texas) High School said, "some people get testaphobia, I passed my math classes with flying colors, but I get to that TAAS test and my mind's like a blank, I have no idea why." (Kunen 62). TExas is one of the 22 states that requires a high school exit exam like the TAAS test. Every year many students are kept from graduating high school because of these exit exams. This makes students and parents very angry.
Cheating in school and college is not unheard of and it has actually become accepted in some institutions. According to a recent poll conducted by Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics, seventy-four percent of students admitted that they’d copied another student’s work, and fifty-one percent said they’d cheated on a test in the past year. (TOMAR) Clearly just about every student in college cheats at least once. Students that cheat get an unfair advantage in their studies. Some students want to get ahead of others no matter what the cost.
There are several ways a writer can avoid plagiarism. Proper citation comes in handy. When using another person idea there is need to use quotation marks properly and always acknowledge the source. Sometimes a writer will use his own words to acknowledge a concept or information that is not considered general or common knowledge. In this case the writer must acknowledge the original source of the idea.
At havard school in May 2012 a teaching mate noticed that approximately half the entire class had been cheating (Buchmann,2014). If the most prestigious school in the world (havard) contains cheating it is normal to assume that cheating happens in every college more than we could think and what motivate students to cheat is lack of understanding and lectures pressure. Teachers may put a lot of pressure on student in a way that makes the material confusing. Or Students may have other things and so they are so busy far from the lessons. In all cases, classmates should not commit plagiarism in the exams so they feel more honest and capable of making the right
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.
Donald Mccabe, who you will hear about later in this essay, did a study about cheating and found some astonishing, and quite frankly disheartening, results. He did a survey of 24,000 high school students over seventy high schools and found that sixty four percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, fifty eight percent admitted to plagiarism, and ninety five percent admitted to cheating in some form, whether copying homework, on a test, or plagiarizing. Cheating is easier as we make advancement in technology and cheating is more prominent when kids value the grades they get over the education they get. Put those things together and you have a recipe for disaster on your hands. As technology increases it makes it easier and more tempting
Fifty percent have cheated on exams, and 34 percent have cheated on more than one test. Research indicates similar trends among college students and even graduate students. The reason why student cheating worsen over the last decade is because of pressure from parents and teachers, technology, and school and parents failing to explain more about cheating. One of the reason students cheat on school is that too much pressure from their parents and teacher to get is the best school. These pressures lead them to cheat.
Technology and Cheating "Technology really is a double-edged sword when it comes to cheating. The means for detecting cheating are catching up with the means for cheating." “There are many definitions of cheating, but the one that most accurately applies to the school environment is this one from Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, to violate rules dishonestly.”[1] With that definition, “A recent survey of more than 1,000 Choices readers shows that cheating among teenagers is a huge problem. Ninety-six percent of the respondents said that cheating was a problem in their school, and while 98 percent of the students said a person did not need to cheat to succeed, 64 percent of the respondents admitted cheating on a test.”[2] Another example of this is given “in a recent study by the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University, 73 percent of seventh-graders and 66 percent of sixth-graders admitted that they had cheated. ‘Because kids as young as eight and nine now have Internet access, we see this problem moving further down in grade level,’ reports Steven Jongewaard, Ph.D., professor of education at Hamline University.”[3] Why do students cheat?
Cheating has become more common in the academic setting. This is partly due to the availability of information, and could potentially be solved by making changes to the policies against cheating in school. While these policy changes are going to be difficult, they are necessary to improving the quality of education, regardless of the level at which the students are placed. Statistics have shown that cheating is becoming worse. Statistics from Plagism.org article “Facts and stats” show in a survey given by Donald McCabe and taken by 24,000 students in high school found “that 64 percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58 percent admitted to plagiarism and 95 percent said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was