The Causes And Effects Of Academic Cheating In High School

Cheating has always been an issue among students. Almost everyone cheats in some fashion in classes. Whether it’s by blatantly copying another student’s answers, or working together on an assignment meant to be done on your own, cheating will remain a staple occurrence in academic life. In Rebekah Nathan’s article, “The Art of College Management: Cheating,” Nathan (2005) delves into students’ various reasons for cheating and even includes cheating as an “aspect[] of student culture,” (p. 27) from the point of view of a student. Nathan defends cheating as a whole by including it as an inevitable part of student culture. Additionally, she claims that everyone cheats, further diving into the idea that cheating is not inherently wrong. As a result of consistently defending cheating, Nathan neglects to provide worthy solutions to the issue as well as ignoring the consequences of cheating.

Over the years, cheating does not carry the same stigma it used to represent. Because of competition and expectations, students are doing whatever it takes to achieve an A average. There are students who are fighting for scholarships or for the position to be on the top. Also, parents and teachers are the root cause of this matter because they have advocated the idea that high GPAs will lead to more successful futures. As a result, grades have become the main focus for most students,

ABC NEWS, the author of A Cheating Crisis In America's Schools, states "technology is giving students even more ways to cheat nowadays" Technology, is very useful to learn, but students are using it to find better ways to cheat (ABC NEWS). I believe cheating is practice in all school levels. Therefore , when student go to college, they think it would be easier to cheat instead of studying.

When asking a student do they think cheating is bad most will say yes and will even admit to cheating.Cheating doesn’t affect many students on a regular day basis until they have been caught red-handed.When it comes to cheating blame automatically goes to the student but what about the adult as well.Some teachers have admitted to seeing student cheat but haven't said anything because it was on homework.Some teachers have even gone to the depth of helping a student cheat on a test.There was a survey that was taken through all of the high schools asking students if they had ever cheated on a test, the results were that there were 64 percent who cheated,58 who plagiarised, and above all 95 percent of them admitted to cheating of some sort.(Academic Integrity Under Statistics paragraph 3 )Students cheat to make it through a semester and to make their parents proud.Students cheat simply because of lack of knowledge, pressure from the adult looking for them to do their best, and last lack of time.

Cheating was not a big deal to me when I was at Myojo Gakuen high school in Japan. However, when I went to LaGuardia Community College in New York, cheating was a serious issue to me and other students as well. While my teachers in my high school at Myojo Gakuen high school viewed cheating as breaking school rules, I believe that the teachers at LaGuardia Community College took cheating as a more serious issue than my teachers from my high school, Myojo Gakuen high school did. In addition, the penalty for cheating was also different. LaGuardia Community College kicks out a student from the school if he/she is caught cheating on exams. Myojo Gakuen high school, on the other hand, dons not kick out a student from the school because of cheating on exams. There are different opinions about cheating in my high school, Myojo Gakuen high school and my college, LaGuardia Community College.

177 cases of academic cheating were reported in the 2013-2014 school at the University of Wisconsin (UWIRE 1). Academic cheating has been a huge problem in the educational setting for a long time. The effort to limit cheating is there, but has not always been the most effective or very well thought out. Academic cheating is present in every type of educational setting, whether it be the middle school, high school, or college level. It is present and it is a problem, which means that something has to be done. Academic cheating comes in many forms. These forms include using a technological device, asking other peers for the answers, and writing answers or helpful information down on objects, such as water bottles, phones, pieces of paper, or

After reading “Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating” by Vivian Yee, I can wholeheartedly agree with the opinions and facts presented in the article. Why? The cheating described, whether light or serious, is prevalent in the schools that I have attended. The goal of attending a prestigious university and obtaining a prestigious job has led to a craze over grades, to the point where students describe the feeling as “...addictive, in a bad way, in a sick way” (Yee 20). Similarly, the craze over better grades has led to various actions of cheating such as plagiarism and copying of answers. As stated in the article, cheating has become such a prevalent and normal aspect of schools today that the “lines are blurry”, and that no one really knows what

Cheating in school is, while frowned upon, very common; especially in high school age students who have a lot riding on them to succeed. In a quote from Mari Pearlman’s LA Times article, “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” she explains that teachers get upset with parents who proudly cheat on “income taxes, fooling a boss or supervisor, taking supplies from a workplace to use at home” but the same parents want teachers to discipline students who cheat. Students become confused as to what kind of cheating is right and wrong because their parents gloat about cheating in adulthood.

Why is it that students and teachers feel the need to cheat? Well it is kinda hard not to cheat if you look at it from their perspective. For instance, while students today are pressured to do well in school to go to good college along with other benefits, teachers are pressured to have good students so their schools get good ratings. So in order to gain these benefits, people cheat regardless of the morals they compromise. Therefore, “social, moral, and financial” incentives tend to outweigh one’s morals causing he or she to cheat.

Cheating by students no matter their grade level has been a prevalent problem among schools for several years. One discouraging fact for academic institutions is that cheating has only gotten worse not better. Cheating can be carried out in a plethora of ways, such as copying off of other students during a test, copying another students homework, using a cell phone to either text answers or look them up, using crib notes or even copy and pasting whole written works and trying to pass the writing off as their own. Students have invented some adept ways of cheating with the assumption that they will not get caught, after all “everyone is doing it.” Cheating occurs preponderantly among students with a lower GPA, although the smart kids cheat too. Teachers need to find it imperative to understand the reasons that students cheat along with their views of particular forms of cheating so that they can be appropriately equipped to steer the student in a new appropriate direction. Even though a large-scale of students see cheating as unethical, they also try to justify their cheating by claiming the class creates a waste of their time and they have better things to do than study. Cheating is cheating, no matter how the student tries to justify their actions. Apart from the students that are participating, cheating hurts the teachers, future job prospects that assume they are hiring someone qualified to do a job based on the degree they have obtained, which in

Many researchers have indicated that cheating is a serious problem on campuses (Bowers, 1964; Engler et al., 2008; Gallant, 2008; Leming, 1978; McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 2001). Studies completed by Bowers (1964) and McCabe and Trevino (1996) revealed nearly identical results regarding student-cheating behavior despite the 30 year time span; both studies identified that

In College, high school, and middle school cheating has become a common occurrence on assignments of all types and varying difficulty by students in all levels and types of classes. So how exactly do all these students cheat? Even more curious, why do so many of them go on to cheat even though they understand that it is wrong and could have dire consequences if they are caught. What are the consequences of cheating other than those that are disciplinary? The four types of cheaters can be classified as “addicts”, “desperados”, “bandwagoners”, and “subconscious”.

McCabe has said that an estimated seventy percent of college students have admitted to some type of cheating. He supports this claim by saying that the parties to blame here is the school system and the media. HBU defines academic dishonesty to when a student cheats or steals someone’s work and passes it as their own among these are a list of actions that count for academic dishonesty. Some examples being brought up about dishonesty is how in the NFL saw past the deflating incident in the Super Bowl were it seems like the media praised the player for his actions (Loschiavo). Therefor, students think it is correct to do be dishonest in their class work.

In a child’s early youth, their minds are like brand new sponges, ready and willing to soak up information to learn all about the new life, that they have been dropped into. Younger or older, the pressure of life begins to sink in on them. This pressure desperately searches for an outlet, and cheating is one of the outlets. The concept of cheating is never really dwelt on in school, the teacher will just say “Don’t look onto your neighbor’s paper” occasionally but, don’t spend time to reinforce the meaning and severity of cheating in school. Picture a young grade schooler, who must go to school, basketball practice, study for the upcoming test and get to bed by 9pm to do it all over again. At times, this schedule can feel more overwhelming than usual, and to avoid disappointing their supporters, the child may take a shortcut to get things done. That first taste is all it takes for the child to realize, “Wow, that was easy. Maybe I should do it again since tomorrow is busy too”. The first-time offense turns into a habit and then spreads through to higher levels of learning. This innovative world is filled with competition, examination, and automation throughout school so, anyone that falls behind will be left in the dust. Overall, cheating in schools should be handled as more severe offenses from early, to prevent the children from setting themselves up for failure later.

Academic learning in today’s changing world brings demands to future professionals. Whether in a traditional classroom, or through distance learning, one thing is similar and which cannot bring forth a successful educational future. One thing that can damage anyone’s academic future is plagiarism. Whether being the future of a straight “A” student, or a student who is just getting by. The fact remains that anyone can fall victim to plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of other writer’s words without acknowledging the source and taking those words and passing them off as one’s own ideas (Jones, 2001). Some people may think plagiarism is just copying someone else’s work but in reality plagiarism is much serious and hold very serious