The Effects Of Academic Cheating On Students

Source B shows us graphs of scenarios teachers and students see about cheating, such as taking out a phone, skipping class, or searching things up. The bar graph show that teachers greatly see more cheating than students. This might be because students really see cheating as helping and not something they aren’t supposed to do. It doesn’t help them realize that cheating is bad and they just don’t feel bad about it.

Cheating used to be considered an unmentionable sin. However, in this day and age, it has become more common and somewhat of a daily occurrence. Cheating is more widespread today than in the past. According to the article titled Education: The New Morality, cheating has not been an issue of values, but simply one of practicality. This shows that many view cheating as a mere occurrence and something that can often be skipped over. The reason cheating has become such a pervasive movement is because many students tend to rationalize their cheating behavior. A common rationalization that many students use is, " That 's the only way I 'll get anywhere in life." Many students also tend to incorporate reasons, such as parental pressures,

The chances of cheating are increasing, which shows that young people are being less honest during our last few years. Many people blame this problem on the changes of technology by giving an open opportunity for stealing others ideas and words. Many others blame it on the pressure that the school and teachers are causing which pushes the students to cheat. Teachers and professors expectations are getting higher. They expect that humans can do thousands of things at once, which is giving less time for students to finish work at a high level. Many studies have been showing an increasing in cheating, which change some people’s mind about what originality is. Copying without giving credit to the person you are stealing the ideas from, 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,

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.

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.

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.

Students may accidentally cheat without knowing due to lack of teaching during high school or may purposely commit the crime because they believe they can outsmart their professors. The plagiarists who believe they outplayed their professors because they think the instructors will not see their cheating due to their enormous load of papers and a busy schedule, however, the professors check every paper carefully no matter the workload. In addition to, the professors will always check Google, and many plagiarists tend to forget that the instructor has access to the web address to double check to see if the student stole information. Students who actively plagiarize, remain lazy and seem careless about their future. They have no worries about what copying can lead to because they want to pass, not to learn. Laziness shows the sign of the leading cause for cheating due to students wishing to pay ghostwriters or who copy and paste work from a website rather than paraphrasing. Genuinely confused students who do not understand the concept of plagiarism that well make do with exceptions due to their mistakes although, students who plagiarize have no excuse of their slothfulness because they know the result of

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.

Students may feel peer pressure of cheating to keep up with fellow classmates that are cheating. Dashner says, “Researchers say that the internet is making it easier to cheat, but the number of student cheating has remained fairly constant from 1980’s to the 1990’s.”

Nine times out of ten students don’t understand the material that is students, but they memorize facts and information so they can get good grades. The problem with that is students aren’t learning but instead, stressing out on what the teachers deem “A” worthy. Teachers admit that they focus on grading students than making sure they understand the topic. “Teachers have become so focused on academic expectations due to pressures that they have little time to focus on other elements of education.” (Duffy). When students graduate and go on to college they get a huge reality check because just memorizing the material won’t cut it and that’s when the students who just breeze through high school fall to the bottom of their class.

It’s obvious that students are bored in the classroom. Typical teenagers talk nonstop about wanting to be in bed, to go home, or to just be eating food. The lack of stimulation in an educational environment is a key factor to the laziness and irresponsibility found in students who cheat. But it’s for a multitude of reasons that cheating is becoming an increasing issue in the lives of students across the nation.

What parent, teacher, or any adult for that matter does not want a student to be very successive in the class room. Many adults believe that pushing a student to his or her limit and beyond to perform extremely well academically is an important factor in a student’s life. Encouraging a student to do the best he or she can is great and can have many positive effects on the student academics. But, many adults pressure kids with such intensity and force that it harms the student academics and self in many ways. The effects of constant pressuring can be emotionally, mentally, and/or physically. The constant pressure can cause negative effects on the students. Many students under high pressure to receive good grades have the negative reactions to the intensity of the pressure like self-doubt, depression, and stress.

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