Which Types of Students Cheat Most?

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who r thinks that they r very genius...................

zabih of AL 8:59AM October 14, 2011

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MIKE DEEZ of TX 10:15AM September 12, 2011

i am a high school student but i do not find myself cheating alot. although i go to HLA where the student pop. is 7 so there isnt much to cheat off... hahaha thanks yall

MATCHELL DUBBS of TX 10:10AM September 12, 2011

I don't think it's just the case of Asians and Africans. I bet it's the same with all students over the world. Some students cheat, and some students don't. I've been living in Korea for three years now, and although I've heard some rumours, those are just minor cases. I've never really seen anyone cheat before.

Julie of MD 12:40AM May 13, 2010

I have been living in western Asia 4 years and also lived in W. Africa for 4 years. I taught English for a year and I can say with only slight reservation that ALL of my students were guilty of cheating either on the giving or taking end (most both). If I left the room for a moment there was instant, loud, unconcealed verbal relay of answers. Why conceal cheating if it is not thought to be wrong? That's the culture they bring into the class room. Of course you can try to create a new one but you are fighting a lifetime of habit.
Cheating in 3rd world countries is a battle of values. The value of helping a friend or fellow student seems to win over the value of integrity in test taking. Actually the latter isn't necessarily viewed as a value at all although when you really press the point some students understand the logic that cheating might not be good for them or society. Many students never grasp that concept. They are not trained in critical thinking. Knowing whether something is true or not is not important. Knowing whether something is beneficial or not is another matter - but even then they rarely go deep enough to assess the detrimental nature of cheating to everyone.

Jeff of IN 9:21AM January 15, 2010

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.

Gordon of CA 3:08PM March 23, 2009

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

Gilbert Fischer of FL 5:23PM November 08, 2008

"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?

Concerned For the Future of MI 3:04PM November 07, 2008

it would be comments on cheAting and elIminate.

of 2:37PM October 30, 2008

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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Peter S. Chamberlain of TX 1:58PM October 27, 2008