The Pros And Cons Of Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty is the use of unauthorized assistance with the intent to deceive an instructor. Academic dishonesty includes behaviors like cheating, plagiarism, and fabrication. Cheating is the use of materials, information or notes that are not authorized by the instructor. Plagiarism is the act of claiming or using someone’s own words or ideas and using them as your own without giving them credit. Fabrication involves falsifying information or data.

Chace askes how does cheating become accepted? Part of the answer is the type of wrong it is. “When one compares it to a violation of copyright which is punishable in a court of law, cheating in college is only morally and ethically wrong.” (Chace, W.M., 25) Even Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. doctoral thesis at Boston University was full of words from other authors and copied down section upon section in great abundance. (Chace, W.M., 25)

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.

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.

The article “Moving From Cheating to Academic Honesty” by Eugene Bratek, speaks about cheating and how it is affecting students. It explains that students have learned to cheat to get a higher grade in school, and because of this many students at the top also cheat to stay at the top. Another topic the article spoke of is, that students use copy and paste, cheating by using others ideas and information. I completely agree that students have taken a liking to cheating to get a better score on a test and to get a better grade overall.

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

Parker University, our profession, and society value academic honest. A student is required to produce original work throughout this and every course. A student is required to cite relevant sources when submitting work that is not original. Plagiarism, cheating and other forms of academic dishonesty, including dishonesty involving computer technology, are prohibited and actionable. Please refer to the Parker University Academic Catalog 2016-2017, Acts of Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty is in this day and age, is to many a gray area in a forever changing idea. The electronics we have available to us allows us to live in a time where, we never have to not know anything. The line between ethical and unethical behavior can become blurred or even nonexistent.

Educational untruthfulness is a very bad affair at Ashford University institute. It is any performance which indecorously influences the assessment of a scholar’s educational accomplishment or attainment. A lot of scholars struggle at some point in their academic careers. During the past weeks at college in the course of my depression I have displayed educational wrongdoing. It contains, but is not narrow to, imitation, misappropriation, and misrepresentation. Misappropriation frequently goes on a scholar’s record and this can interfere with their aptitude to relocating to a new college or go to advanced school. Realizing that I have been set on university trial is alarming and unsatisfactory. Not only have I failed the

200 educators from 40 schools were involved in a cheating scandal in Atlanta. At one school, educators had weekend pizza parties to correct wrong answers on test documents together. As a result, the school's scores increased 45 percent.

Strain plays a big role in academic dishonesty because the student feels like they can not reach the goals that are set out for them within society or even within classes. Certain behaviors from the individual or whom the individual is friends with can provoke or even support academic dishonesty. Differential association shows that behavior can be picked up if the person is hanging out with deviant peers. If the student can not reach the goals they will resort to academic dishonesty or even plagiarism. Social control also plays a part in this because if the behavior is neither supported or discouraged the students will assume it is okay or it is unnoticed and they will not stop the behavior. Some of the ways we can prevent academic dishonesty would be to educate teachers on the ever changing systems students are using the cheat, whether it be crib notes, wearing certain articles of clothing, or assigning signals or hints to signal answers to other peers. If we can educate teachers on what to look for if they suspect someone is cheating they can punish that student and discourage other students from cheating because they realize the teacher is catching onto all of their tricks.

Dishonesty in the academic setting can be done by cheating on a test, plagiarism, and or an act of bullying (Billings, 2015). These methods of cheating are on the rise with the increase use of technology (Billings, 2015). There are devices sold to aid in the act of cheating. All of this has impacted the learning environment by making the surrounding students feel uncomfortable. While some students are struggling to pass, and others are naturally gifted with the ability to remember the material all students look at cheating as a negative behavior. Moreover the nursing students are looked at as “the helpers” a honest profession (Billings, 2015). If the nursing students will cheat on a test,

Plagiarism to me means using someone else's intellectual ideas or work as your own without crediting the original author's work and Franklin University takes this offense seriously. Correspondingly the punishments for academic dishonesty are severe, depending on the intent and severity of the first offense those punishments could be a score of zero or possibly a failing grade in the class with the possibility of needing to complete a workshop on appropriate citation. Additionally, A violation of academic dishonesty will result in the option to withdraw from the class in an attempt to avoid a failing grade, Undergraduate students may also eliminate them from receiving any academic honors. Furthermore, any consecutive violation of academic dishonesty

Technology is rapidly evolving and changing, and as a result of the increasing availability and propagation of several forms of technology, academic dishonesty cases in every college and university have greatly multiplied and become a global issue. The issue on cheating behaviors in students is so pervasive and uncontrollable that it is almost considered as commonplace (Arhin & Jones, 2009). One of the hardest challenges for educators is knowing how and when to discipline their students. In the given scenario, there are several issues to take into account; the first and foremost being the issue of academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty is defined by the Webster dictionary as the intentional participation in deceptive practices regarding one’s academic work or the work of another (Faucher & Caves, 2009). Jones (2011) states that many institutions of higher education have adopted academic dishonesty policies, instituted academic integrity tutorial completion prerequisites for next term registration, and acquired plagiarism software detection tools. They go on to say that within the past few years, high-tech cheating is gradually replacing the simple cut-and-paste cheating, and educators must be proactive and develop instructional strategies that integrate all facets of appropriate digital citizenship, that is, digital ethics. By implementing these academic dishonesty and integrity policies and making them attainable to

Cheating in the classroom has been happening since the first schoolhouse was built; however, it has more than doubled in the last decade due to the emergence of new technologies that give students high tech alternatives to looking at their classmate's paper. "A 2002 survey by the Josephson Institute of Ethics of 12,000 high-school students found that 74 % of students had cheated on an exam at least once in the previous year. According to Donald McCabe, who conducted the Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, study, the Internet is partly to blame. The Internet makes plagiarism very simple. In-class cheating has also gone high technology. Experts say students who cheat are not just