Cheating on College Examinations

Either the students cheat themselves or they are trying to cheat their professors. Some Rabbis even claim that it’s a big Issur of Gneivat Daat, but I disagree and think that the focus shouldn’t be on the Halacha perspective about cheating, but about the morals that as a school who represent the Jewish world. If we show the world of ethical and honest we are, not just we make the other religions loves us, but also we are going to make a big Kiddush Hashem. And I am a fervent believer that with this attitude of positivity, we will make a big change in and out of the university

Cheating is the new culture, well it’s not the new culture is has been the culture. Cheating is when you be dishonest in class submitting work and answers to the professor as if they were your own. Not everyone has the same depiction of cheating. According to Rebekah Nathan, cheating has been part of the college culture for the last couple of centuries (Nathan 28). In college there is many ways to cheat. Throughout Nathan article, “The Art of College Management: Cheating”, she gives the readers a student perspective on cheating also their reasons and justifications. Not everyone feel the same way about the topic of cheating how Rebekah Nathan do. In Mathieu Bouville journal article “Why Cheating is Wrong?” he discuss the reasons why cheating is wrong also how it affects students in the long run. Cheating will become a more often thing and schools will continue to report high numbers of academic dishonesty. Keeping it part of the culture. Which is acceptable to Nathan, but she failed to layout the consequences of cheating. Throughout the four articles on cheating each author view it differently, but Rebekah Nathan article offers effective insight about the college culture and the practice of cheating.

McCabe offers and insightful opinion as he suggests that students cheat because they will see others cheating, and getting away with it. This gives them an unfair advantage in the race for a high GPA, which will influence other student’s to cheat in order to level the playing field ("Cheating in College"). Academics have become a never ending battle for grades. The goals of structuralized education have shifted from engaging student’s to learn valuable and world altering knowledge, and instead has shifted to producing student’s with a 4.0 GPA. Performance oriented educational systems only invite dishonest behaviors because the legitimate acquisition of knowledge is undervalued and less important than the letter on a report card. When this undervaluing occurs students see cheating as a necessary means by which they must use to achieve the ill-conceived goal of education which has been seeded into their minds.

The other reason that I believe college students cheat is because of the benefit/cost tradeoff favors cheating. This is the reason that I like and the reason I believe that college students really cheat. Students will cheat if they think it’s easy, and they won’t get caught doing it. The consequences of cheating may seem positive to a student, for example, I cheated, got a higher grade, and no one else suffered (Dowd, par. 7). Students are able to rationalize their cheating by saying that faculty does a poor job in the classroom and that institutions don’t do a good job of addressing the issue of cheating (Kress, p.30). Some people argue that teachers are partially responsible because they ignore the evidence and choose not to

Flunking students can make one cheat in school. Cheating happens a lot in school because most don’t get caught therefore, students don’t understand the consequences of cheating. According to Sherry, “Passing students who have not mastered the work, cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills” (Sherry). Most employers expect graduates students to know the basic skills, but yet some don’t. Overall failure does not help students ' success in life. For example, I have witnessed my classmate cheat in math class. Some students blame that it’s hard to understand the teacher’s teaching skill therefore one needs to cheat. The point is many students does not take the initial to go to tutor. Cheating has bothered me, especially when one tried to study and the other don’t but still pass the class. In multiple test, a classmate who sat next to me always used one’s phone to google the answer or stared at my answer. Throughout the test, I

Research has shown that some students cheating behaviors are linked to students of lower abilities are more likely to cheat than those that have higher learning abilities. (Anderman et, al. 2006). While some students struggle to make things happen by studying hard and trying their best at everything they do. There are the other students that are very well put together and smart and are expected to do their best. Do they cheat as well? And if so why? Research has found that students that are expected to keep a high grade point average and get into the best colleges around the world also cheat. But

Students may try to rationalize academic dishonesty through various methods. In one study, the researcher explored the reasons given by college students for cheating during scholastic examinations. In the study, most of the participants defined cheating as taking reminder notes into an examination, getting help during the exam, or theft of knowledge. The students believed the likelihood of cheating was found to be high, specifically with preparation of cheating materials before the examination. Some students justified helping friends they are close to or who they

The first thing to understand here is why students rely on this act to achieve good grades and what causes them to cheat in the first place. The initial reason that can be associated to this problem is that of the fear of failure which every student dreads. In colleges and universities, failing in a particular course or semester becomes a huge issue and a problem for students when they have to repeat it. The fear of parents getting angry, grounding the children or the other punishments that the student will have to face scares him or her to the extent that they switch to such acts to seek their way out and avoid the situations on the whole. Another very common reason is that of lack of preparation. It is a norm for students to delay things till time runs out and they have a lot to do in a limited time period. Because of this, their grades fall drastically and they end up facing hardships in maintaining their GPAs and grades. Hence, cheating becomes an alternate way

There are many causes to why a student do things. Some students do things for the benefit of their selves and some students do things for the benefit of others. A lot of things students do have no meaning but cheating is not one of them. Cheating is not a good thing but also I do not feel as if it’s a bad thing. Some see cheating as an easy way out and some see cheating as the only way out. Nobody can judge no one how the earn anything because it may be the only way. I think that the three main reasons a student cheat is they fear they will fail, they have poor time management, or they are just not really into the assignment.

Academic cheating occurs when a student is being dishonest during the completion of their exams and assignments. In the June of 2005 Donald McCabe a professor at Rutgers University reported for The Center for Academic Integrity that statistically, 70% of public high school students openly admitted to cheating on their tests, or plagiarizing papers throughout their four years. These findings were provided by making use of a Gallup survey, Gallup is a private credible company that provides a vast amount of research and consulting on behalf of their polls to many successful organizations around the world. Due to provided research cheating is a common occurrence in high school, and as many may say, “old habits die slow.”

Another most important cause of academic misconduct is the contextual factor of an environment of peer disapproval of cheating, that is, peer pressure. Psychologists note that all people tend to follow the norms of their peer group, which would include norms about academic dishonesty. Thus, students who believe that their peers disapprove of cheating are less likely to cheat. Indeed, multiple studies show that the most decisive factor in a student's decision to cheat is his perception of his peers' relationship with academic dishonesty.

Another reason why students cheat is because they did not do their work on time. Bobby would have days where he did not get his work done on time. He would go out with friends instead of work on his homework. Bobby never liked to tell his friends he could not hang out with them. Bobby never told his friends he could hang out after he was done with his work for school. Bobby thought he would have time

Imagine a student sitting in English while taking an exam. You see this kid pull out a paper every few seconds and write down an answer real quick then put it away. This is what we all know as cheating. In reality, cheating is defined in many ways. The best definition of cheating is misleading, deceiving, or representing someone else’s work as your own. The reason a lot of kids cheat is because of their grades. It is true that kids who are lazy cheat off of others, but the real reason people cheat is because they need the grade. In the past few years, grade importance and how it reflects on the schools have become more important than the educational value and the understanding of the material. If we were to start focusing more on the educational value rather than grade importance, than the amount of cheating in schools would decrease. Placing so much emphasis on grades rather than the educational value perpetuates the act of cheating and this need to change.

Imagine a student sitting in English while taking an exam. You see this kid pull out a paper every few seconds and write down an answer real quick then put it away. This is what we all know as cheating. In reality, cheating is defined in many ways. The best definition of cheating is misleading, deceiving, or representing someone else’s work as your own. The reason a lot of kids cheat is because of their grades. It is true that kids who are lazy cheat off of others, but the real reason people cheat is because they need the grade. In the past few years, grade importance and how it reflects on the schools have become more important than the educational value and the understanding of the material. If we were to start focusing more on the educational value rather than grade importance, than the amount of cheating in schools would decrease. Placing so much emphasis on grades rather than the educational value perpetuates the act of cheating and this need to change.

Cheating is a complex issue for most of the students (eg: Michales & Mithe,1989).Discussion about academic dishonesty are clearly influenced by social and school norms as well as attitude of teacher and most importantly friends (Mc cabe & Trevion , 1993,1997) there are many children who are haslital of direct copying material from various sites of internet and present them as their own. Students who cheat may be getting higher grades than they deserve. For example a survey of high school teachers found that cheating is partially responsible for grade inflation (Bushneller 1999) when students see other student cheating and do not see any faculty member and administration addressing such behaviour they may think that academic dishonesty