The Consequences 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.

Chace, W. M. (2012). A Question of Honor: Cheating on campus undermines the reputation of our universities and the value of their degrees. Now is the time for students themselves to stop it. (Cover story). American Scholar, 81(2), 20-32.

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,

As college standards increase yearly, students feel greater pressure to succeed. As a result of the rising academic expectations, cheating has become a national issue and most students have admitted to cheating at least once in their educational career. Overloaded with school work, students see cheating as an advantage and step towards academic success. Thus, cheating results from an urgency to do well in school and being overscheduled.

In Mari Pearlman’s L.A. Times article, “ Cheating In School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” (1999), she discusses cheating and its effect on students, both, while in school and later in life. Cheating has been around for a long time and now cheating’s grip on students is worsening. With the more often occurrence of cheating in schools, schools need to put their foot down and put a stop to cheating in order to lower the occurrence of cheating in the future. However, there are some that say cheating is not common anymore and is rarely spotted.

75% of college students cheat at one time or another in their college careers due to laziness, competitive pressures, or simply fear. In “Cheating Lessons: Part 3”, by James M. Lang, he explains that certain learning environments unknowingly give students opportunities to cheat. Lang also provides tactics to help classrooms reduce the numbers of cheating, while aiding students to achieve their academic goals with the right “tools.”

Cheating has been an ongoing procedure that has been occurring since before I was born. This has been a problem for years and continues being so as cheating is becoming more and more common. In the article by LA Times, ¨Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society¨ (August 22, 1999) written by Mari Pearlman, she explains how adults want teachers to punish students for cheating although they are doing the same thing, only in different ways. I agree with Mari Pearlman´s analysis on what she has to say about cheating because still to this day, it is all true.

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.

Many students today feel the pressure of needing to succeed in the classroom. Because of this, many have forced themselves to cheat. This affects students towards the lower end of grades, and at the highest levels. This is especially prominent in upper classmen. In the article,”Moving From Cheating to Academic Honesty”, The author Eugene Bratek, finds examples, and solutions to academic dishonesty.

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

As technology continues to grow and advance, so does the presence and access to various methods of cheating. In simple terms, cheating is stealing information or work in order to be used for personal gain or to have an advantage against the competition. More and more students are resorting to cheating as the academic competition for college and jobs increases. Although it seems to be common knowledge to students that what they are doing is wrong and severely punishable, most students believe the benefit of cheating trumps the risk, and that they will never get caught or punished anyway. As the amount of academic dishonesty continues to grow amongst students ranging from elementary school to graduate students, it is becoming increasingly apparent

Although cheating seems morally unacceptable, sometimes material is not learned in class. In his book, James Land states, “three-fourths of college students claim they have cheated at least once in their academic careers” Not only that, but, “Lang is associate professor of English and the director of the center for

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

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.