Which Types of Students Cheat Most?

Cheaters

I'd be interested to see these results segmented by cultural background. In many Asian nations behavior that Americans would consider cheating is common practice.

Which Students Cheat Most?

It's a different world from the one I grew up in beginning back in 1917. This is progress?

Future Business people

"A majority of grad students in business—56 percent—acknowledged that they had cheated at least once"

Ahh yes. Prospectus business acumen in development.

Is there any wonder that we have the Wall Street ethics that we have?

Is there any wonder why our economy is suffering at the hands of the few that caused it?

it would be comments on cheAting and elIminate.

I suspect that cheating is up significantly from the level of cheating we did see when I was in college fifty-plus years ago. A letter I had written to the Saturday Evening Post about using test files in the library was edited incorrectly so it read as though I had said there was no cheating on our private college campus, and everybody laughed. We heard of one group getting advance access to tests, etc., by seducing those with access. Some students were smart enough that they could spend little time studying, drink their way through, and make As even in pre-med, but some who graduated with honors always impressed me as not that smart or well prepared..

I live in a second-tier state university town and they have started using www.turnitin.com etc. to help spot plagiarism in themes, theses, etc., which is an indication of the problem but not a solution to catching many forms of cheating.

Students are arriving at college utterly unprepared for college-level work. The parents of the salutatorian, second in her class, at one smaller school district contacted me about suing, which sovereign and official immunity prevent, after their apparently honest daughter, who had earned a scholarship, had to be put into both remedial reading and remedial math. Way too many students have not been able to pass the required, relatively easy, Junior Level Essay exam requirement, though “no pass, no play” and “No Child Left Behind” have helped.

Having attended law school under nationally known experts on legal ethics, and practiced law for thirty-five years, including three years writing legal ethics opinions requested by members for a major bar association, I have seen a very troubling deterioration in legal ethics that has turned the phrase into a joke, an oxymoron. “Liar! Liar!” would have been even funnier if it were not all too true. A former State Bar president lamented about this privately to me in 1978, and it’s much worse now. An official ABA ethics opinion recently said that, if your opponent accidentally sent you what was clearly privileged and confidential information, you had to send it back, but you were nevertheless free to copy it first and use it, and another permits use of recovery and use of “metadata,” reflecting changes the other side had clearly never intended to communicate. The school district told me they had quit sending trainees to certain law offices because of a history of sexual harassment of the worst kind. A lawyer got caught having stolen evidence from my file, right in front of the judge, while he had me on the stand, and nothing happened to him. I could cite worse examples of which I have both personal knowledge and documentary proof, but some of the culprits now hold high judicial and other offices. Leading lawyers with clients like major computer companies, and in higher levels of the U. S. government, in both Democratic and Republican administrations, get caught committing crimes.

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comment on cheeting

I though that students who are cheating looking for high grade in easiest way.Sometimes you find them spending most of the time without studying and did not care about it.Therefore,well organized methods must be applied to eleminate this disease.

I though that students who are cheating looking for high grade in easiest way.Sometimes you find them spending most of the time without studying and did not care about it.Therefore,well organized methods must be applied to eleminate this disease.

The price of moral relativism...

When our nation adopts a moral relativistic view of life, we can only reap the consequences via cheating, untruthfulness, and pure selfishness.

Take prayer out of the classrooms because of the so-called separation of church and state.

Wonderful, now we pay the price of becoming a nation of cheaters. Watch your back since you don't know who is trustworthy.

I totally agree with Tom J. There is a huge gap between the academic worls and the professional one.

Testing in general

The very nature of memorizing and then reguritating facts perpetuates cheating. In the real world, you have an infinite number of references at your disposal to solve problems and the real measure of 'what you know' is how you use them. It's far more valuable to know where to get and how to use information that it is to be able to pull facts out of your head at any given moment.