The Digital Age: Student Ethics In The Digital Age

As a high school student, I see cheating going on every day. Cheating has become normal now because all the students care about is passing. After all, isn’t that what school is about now, passing and not actually gaining knowledge. High school is just one big competition on who can get the highest grades. (Source F)

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.

There are many reasons why students cheat. Some are too lazy to study. Some want to take a risk to get a higher grade. Some students help others cheat by doing their work because they may need the extra money, even though they may not consider themselves cheating. Neither of those statements should allow you to cheat, those are excuses students make. Oftentimes, students cheat because they think they can get away with it. The feeling of being able to make a good grade without putting in the hard work might make one feel better about his or her self. In addition, some students may be afraid of failure. My generation is exposed to many ways to cheat being that our main resource is the internet. For example, there is a website where you can buy essays written by students from different colleges. Not only is that cheating but that is a form of plagiarism. In other words, cheating has numerous definitions.

Cheating is like an addiction. Once you start, you can’t stop. All over the world, students have resorted to cheating, which has turned into a major habit that needs to be taken more seriously. Today, most schools are making the cheating policy much more stricter, as this would reinforce the idea to students that cheating is wrong. Cheating has become a worldwide issue that needs to be addressed throughout schools. Cheating policies should be more strict, as it pertains to students doing academically well or not. Cheating is not beneficial in any way because although it can get a test grade an A in a certain class, it will not help in future classes or even getting a job in the near future. Teachers and parents also contribute to students cheating and bear the same amount of responsibility.

There has been multiple instances of students resorting to cheating as method to do well. One study had about sixty percent of students admit to cheating on a test this showing an obvious problem. Cheating is not restricted to just lazy students that don’t want to work, but is also used by students that can’t keep up with the material or students that determine that the results on the test are more important than what they know. Test like the SAT and ACT are both one of the most strict test against cheating yet the importance placed on them convinces many student to cheat despite this. These standardized test pressure student every year to cheat as for some it could decide their future convincing them that the reward outweighs the

“It is not a question of who cheats, it is a question of who cheats the most”. If everybody does it then why does it matter if you cheat every once in a while to get by. If students successfully pull it off then they easily slip by on a test or homework assignment without having to do anything, giving them more time to do leisurely activities. The reason some students cheat is deeper than that most of the time, with college requirements becoming higher, students struggle to reach those requirements without a little help sometimes. Students resort to cheating due to GPA’s, the pressure, and the reward.

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

Students are cheating because they do not have good grades. This could be a result of doing excellent on homework, while doing horrible on tests. Another thing that could be causing this is students not turning in their work on time. Students may also be resorting to cheating because they did not study for a test in an ideal fashion.

Cheating is a form of academic dishonesty, whereby the cheater has an unfair advantage over other students. According to utilitarianism and virtue ethics theories, cheating is morally wrong. From a utilitarian perspective (the ends justify the means), the cheating students may be happy with their resultant higher grades, but the majority non-cheating students would not be happy, especially if there is a grading curve involved. Virtue ethics values qualities like integrity, honesty and fairness while avoiding vices like greed and selfishness. If cheating were allowed to go unnoticed, it would create a greed-driven society in which cheating is a quick way to profit. In addition, I should not assist my friends in cheating as not only does it make me a cheater as well, it does not benefit me at all, since I have already completed my test. Helping out would only be disadvantageous to my own grades.

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

Cheating is more common in schools than teachers think. When students have an easier way of doing something, why would they put all the work into a worksheet, when they could just copy off of someone? Teachers threaten the consequences of cheating all the time, but students continue to cheat. The reason for doing this, is simply the fact that students don’t get punished, or in fact caught for it. When a twitter survey was conducted, 67 students participated, with a total of 69% of students saying that yes, they have

That reality, which shows students who want to pass on the subjects that they find difficult for them, is also another cause why they cheat on college exam. There are times that a student, no matter how hard he studies, still finds it hard to cope with lectures in a specific subject causing him to cheat during exams. A student may also be forced to cheat if there is a parental expectation regarding his grades. Another common reason why they cheat on college exam is because of the other students who also cheat, especially when they found out that the head of the class also cheats making them realize that cheating will give them better grades. If this is the case an effect would be more and more students will be attempted to cheat during exams provided that the first one who committed it was not caught.

Cheating has been prominent forever. Scandals related to cheating are in the news most of the time. Especially from prestigious institutions. It has been a way for people to get by in society with certain things instead of working hard. It has been a way for people in many educational institutions to get by with hard work. Cheating by definition is an act of dishonesty to gain advantage in examination and to avoid something undesirable by luck or skill. Cheating is very much frowned upon in nearly all educational institutions.

There are many reasons that make a person cheats, one of which is the fear of failing or not passing. Looking at the root of this problem, there are many possible solutions. If a student start studying and take things seriously from the first day of class, he/she will not end up using any cheating methods. Working hard in school is very important as well as learning adequately. We all need and must value hard work and never use any cheating methods. Moving to being unfair while cheating. When a person cheats they are setting a bad example for everyone. Not only it is not fair for the other students but also it is unfair to the student himself. The worst part about the cheating that

The big question everyone has is why do people cheat? Cheating is something we all do , but no one knows why that's why we have people like Eric Anderman and Dan Ariely who study the human behavior. They help us figure out the big question of why we cheat. Eric and Tamara Murdock,PhD, editor and Co editor of “The Psychology of Academic Cheating” found that “How teachers present the goals of learning in class is key to reducing cheating. Anderman showed that students who reported the most cheating perceive their classrooms as being more focused on extrinsic goals, such as getting good grades, than on mastery goals associated with learning for its own sake and continuing improvement(Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 90, No.1)(Article 2). This quote tells us that teachers that tell their students how much their good grades count and how amazing they are if they get a good grades leads to more cheating. The kids cheat more off the kids near them to see if they have the right answer just so the teacher and their parents will be happy. The teachers who teach the kids that even if you get a bad grade they will be happy because you tried your best will have less cheating in their classrooms.