Problems Of Cheating In Education

Many Schools and institutes of higher learning have implemented an honor code or honor system, with the purpose being to lower the rate of dishonest behavior, mainly cheating, stealing, and plagiarizing. These honor codes do not always prove effective, there are still those who cheat and the proof that honor codes change anything is minimal. These flaws show that schools need to revise their honor code or honor system.

The honor code serves as an eliminating factor for these problems. According to research, there are significantly lower levels of cheating reported at honor code schools because of how socially unacceptable cheating is among the majority of students (Source F). Those who violate the honor code put themselves at a social risk. When the majority of students act with honesty and sincerity, the one who cheats is often embarrassed and ostracized. According to a survey, 88% of students at a school believe that failure on an assignment is a reasonable punishment for the violation of the honor code (Source E). Even students believe that violations of the honor code are so bad that they should result in failure. Threatening to fail students on an assignment holds back the urge to cheat. Students have a great fear of being caught because of the strict consequences that come with violating the honor code (Source F). With the fear of punishment suppressing any urge to cheat, commitment to the honor code becomes more and more prevalent. This allows cheating to be erased from the student body. If my school continues to maintain the honor code, the fear of punishment will wipe out cheating across the entire student

In 2013, Aaron Bacall proposed a joke stating “recent research has shown that a spycam can greatly improve the honor code.” An honor code is based on integrity and honesty, and a “spycam” only reflects a bad connotation. School-wide academic honesty should be achieved in an honest and acceptable manner. Unfortunately, cheating still occurs occasionally even “where honor is so well defined and policed by an elite student committee” (Kahn, 2013). Consequently, some level of technology should be used to evaluate assigned homework. GSMST, being very technology oriented, has already established a method for detecting plagiarism in essays. Although this technology is beneficial, it is also applied in an honest manner. Students are aware that their work is being evaluated; it does not cross morality lines like a “spycam”

An honor code can be so effective that “many schools with academic honor codes allow students to take their exams without proctors present, relying on peer monitoring to control cheating” (Source F). Despite this system, there is research that “indicates that the significantly lower levels cheating” (Source F) at schools with honor codes. This is possible because there is a peer culture that denounces cheating, making kids embarrassed to commit academic dishonesty. Such a peer culture was formed by educating the students about the value of academic dishonesty. Subsequently, the attempts made by schools with honor codes to promote the value of academic integrity have proven that when properly implemented, an honor code can be highly

The student author of the editorial seems to respect the honor code Groveton expects from its students, yet the author assumes the code itself is solely responsible for the alleged reduction in cheating at the school. Citing a survey to further empahsize the aforementioned assumption, the author only invites more speculation on the topic rather than providing further evidence as intended. While cheating is a frowned upon topic in all universities, this editorial is rife with assumptions and fallacious deduction, rendering the argument weak and unconvincing.

The nature of cheating originates from the common misconception of helping others and a student’s lack of self-confidence. Plagiarism, not so different from cheating, disperses from the broad range of information on today’s technology. Through an authentic study, it has been revealed that teachers have established many students who have cheated their way through complexed assignments. Even misleading students who have kept a high grade point average has been found as participants of academic dishonesty. Today, professors seek to find different measures that should be taken to decrease cheating and plagiarism. But, some of these particular professors treat this situation very poorly. Teachers should inform the students the consequences of cheating,

A number of high schools, colleges, and universities have adopted an honor code to cultivate integrity amongst students at their institution. These principles vary from cheating to tardiness, to plagiarism and have garnered praise from multiple outlets for apparently being successful in preventing cheating and enforcing punishment for those who break the rules. However, others like myself, criticize the honor code due to skepticism in its abilities to prevent such rule breaking, its success in being enforced, and whether it would actually convince a student to not cheat. If Windham High School were to establish an honor code, it would be a failure given that it would not encourage students to abstain from breaking it.

One of the most common problems in our schooling system is that students cheat. This happens a lot with older students who struggle with the topic that their assignment is on. In “The Shadow Scholar” by Ed Dante, and “Introduction: Fraud and Fundamental Misunderstandings” by Shane Borrowman shows how students cheat to move on in their education. In both of these texts the authors tell their first-hand stories of their different students cheating. In “The Shadow Scholar” Ed Dante writes papers for students who pay him and this text published in 2012 in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This articles target audience is higher level educators who read The Chronicle. In “Introduction: Fraud and Fundamental Misunderstandings”

Of course, cheating is not a new phenomenon. Reflecting on this chapter caused this writer to consider experiences from high school. There were several situations witnessed where teachers assisted students with the answers to tests in an attempt to help them pass to the next grade, keep a higher average in order to play sports. It was even expected by many of the “elite” athletes, and encouraged by some teachers, that certain “top” students complete

There are many students that are guilty about cheating on assignments in school. With easy access to the Internet students are able to pay other people online to do their work. It is a easy way for students now to go on the Internet and buy a paper, when they are too busy to sit down and do the paper themselves. It seems as technology grows and grows and more websites come up, more people will stop doing the work and stop being creative. When will they ever stop cheating or stop being lazy? that is the real question.adding to that, students with cell phone uses their phone to connect with their friends to get the answers for an exam in class. plagiarism is one hard thing to do when doing an assignment. when doing an assignment you need to make

“Since “everyone else” is cheating, they have no choice but to do the same to remain competitive. And there is growing evidence many students take these habits with them to college.” (McCabe, Donald and Pavela). More and more colleges are using the honor codes. The honor code has helped to prevent cheating. The students who use the honor codes become good citizens in the future. Honor codes are helpful because there are expectations, no more cheating and social codes.

Utilitarianism is one of the best ethical approaches that can be used to justifying a right action from a wrong action by focusing on the outcome of the path taken. The most important thing is that the action taken to achieve a certain outcome has to be of the greater benefit of the society at large. Whether the outcome is bad, it can be used to morally justify some deeds regardless of how inhumane they can be. On the other side, utilitarianism also does not justify everything because it is difficult at time to predict whether the actions taken will be good or bad at the end. Additionally, values cannot be accounted for. It cannot account for social justice and other human rights. Since utilitarianism

The honor code is thought to be effective, when taking tests, but is it making students even more nervous, than they already are. The honor code is mostly used by universities because of the size of some of the classes, which doesn’t allow the professor to keep their eyes on all their students. The honor code can be used against those who cheat those who witness the cheating and fail to report it. The honor system enforces students to not cheat and to keep an eye on their peers, so that it’s no unfair.

I remember some classmates, cheating back in high school. Throughout my entire educational career, I have experienced meeting a lot of cheaters. Plagiarism is considered a form of cheating. The punishment has changed from a zero grade to expulsion. A lot of students who cheat, are only fooling themselves. Now, in college, cheating will place an academic warning on your official transcript, making it visible to other institutions. I am going to come clean, about cheating in the far past. I am taking, full responsibility that cheat is a unethical habit. Most students decide to cheat, because they want high grades, without much effort. I can’t remember the exact incident, that occured cheating, although I have. We learn, from our mistakes as we mature.

We are taught the difference between the right and wrong since our childhood but are always told that the lying and cheating always makes things difficult but when students go to school and college they are faced with different dilemma as then the cheating seems to be the easier way to get good grades. They do not really see cheating as the wrong way of doing things they see it as an easy way of doing things .They do not even consider it as an unethical thing because they have been taught that to do the right thing is the easy way .They are taught that the right path and the ethical path is always the easy one but in reality that is not true. The ethical and right path is difficult and complex as J.K.Rowling has said, “Sometimes we must choose between what is right and what is easy.”