Q: How many of Who's Who high school students cheat on tests?
A: 39% of A and B "Who's Who Among High School Students" high achievers cheat on exams and quizzes, as found in a recent poll. Two thirds of these high-achievers copy homework.
In 1993, the findings were actually slightly higher (40% and 78%) so it is not necessarily true that we are getting worse as a society.
Sources: http://www.whoswho-teachers.com/3attitudeANDsopinions/26.aspx and http://www.newsday.com/other/education/ny-cheaters-conflict,0,656890.story
Q: How many students admit to regularly engaging in cheating?
A: Over 50%, in almost every survey done in the past five years.
"75 percent of [high school students] engage in serious cheating."
"More than half have plagiarized work they found on the Internet."
"Some 50 percent of those responding to the survey said they don't think copying questions and answers from a test is even cheating."
Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/05/highschool.cheating/ April 5, 2002
Q: How bad is it?
A: 47% go to a school with a lot of cheating.
Sources: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/US/cheating_poll_040429.html
"Let’s be upfront: cheating—most commonly in the insidious form of copying or other illicit collaboration—happens quite a bit at Harvard on take-home assignments, especially problem sets. Worse, Harvard’s prohibitory policies on inappropriate collaboration, while explicitly stated in the Handbook for Students and often in course syllabi themselves, are enforced about as effectively as anti-terrorism legislation is enforced by the Palestinian Authority."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=255644
Q: Latest example?
"DENVER (AP) - Six cadets have resigned from the Air Force Academy during an investigation in which 70 freshmen cadets are accused of cheating on a 25-question online test." May 8th 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4068566,00.html
I know somebody who left the Air Force Academy recently before starting the third year. He left because it was difficult for him (he was also home schooled through high school), but these seventy freshman have no respect right from the start? How disguisting.
However, I am proud of the Air Force Academy for kicking people out like that, even though they had the sex scandals that made them look bad already. This actually makes them look very good, because everybody knows from statistics that cheaters cheat anyway, honor code or not, and the fact that most schools would try to keep that kind of information from the press, the Air Force Academy seems kind of proud! Good for them.
The Navy (and I will be objective here as always) had a big scandal in 1994 that lead to an EIGHTEEN MONTH INVESTIGATION. "Officials said... the 24 expelled midshipmen will not be required to repay the academy for their educations, which cost as much as $90,000. Nor did he order them to serve for three years in the enlisted ranks. Current seniors will be allowed to finish their spring courses but will not get academy degrees." So basically, nothing was even done after doing the eighteen month investigation. It teaches students to cheat as seniors to get out of the committment.
"The cheating incident occurred when an unknown number of midshipmen obtained copies of a stolen electrical engineering exam a few days before it was given. Investigators for the naval inspector general found that 134 midshipmen were involved in varying degrees. Some were accused of buying and selling copies of the exam for as much as $50. Others were charged with writing formulas and other information on index cards based on the exam and using the cards in the examination room. Still others were accused of lying to investigators about their knowledge of the cheating.
"I admitted I was guilty," said Lance Barnes, a defensive end on the 1993 football team. "The bottom line is ... that people were kept for doing the same thing I did. I don't understand why I am different from my classmates."
This is really sickening, considering these people beat others out, possibly other cheaters :icon_rage Then, these people cannot take responsibility for their actions whatsoever. (In defense of the USNA, they brought in an ethics course and other improvements to highlight morals to their students.)
A: 39% of A and B "Who's Who Among High School Students" high achievers cheat on exams and quizzes, as found in a recent poll. Two thirds of these high-achievers copy homework.
In 1993, the findings were actually slightly higher (40% and 78%) so it is not necessarily true that we are getting worse as a society.
Sources: http://www.whoswho-teachers.com/3attitudeANDsopinions/26.aspx and http://www.newsday.com/other/education/ny-cheaters-conflict,0,656890.story
Q: How many students admit to regularly engaging in cheating?
A: Over 50%, in almost every survey done in the past five years.
"75 percent of [high school students] engage in serious cheating."
"More than half have plagiarized work they found on the Internet."
"Some 50 percent of those responding to the survey said they don't think copying questions and answers from a test is even cheating."
Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/05/highschool.cheating/ April 5, 2002
Q: How bad is it?
A: 47% go to a school with a lot of cheating.
Sources: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/US/cheating_poll_040429.html
"Let’s be upfront: cheating—most commonly in the insidious form of copying or other illicit collaboration—happens quite a bit at Harvard on take-home assignments, especially problem sets. Worse, Harvard’s prohibitory policies on inappropriate collaboration, while explicitly stated in the Handbook for Students and often in course syllabi themselves, are enforced about as effectively as anti-terrorism legislation is enforced by the Palestinian Authority."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=255644
Q: Latest example?
"DENVER (AP) - Six cadets have resigned from the Air Force Academy during an investigation in which 70 freshmen cadets are accused of cheating on a 25-question online test." May 8th 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4068566,00.html
I know somebody who left the Air Force Academy recently before starting the third year. He left because it was difficult for him (he was also home schooled through high school), but these seventy freshman have no respect right from the start? How disguisting.
However, I am proud of the Air Force Academy for kicking people out like that, even though they had the sex scandals that made them look bad already. This actually makes them look very good, because everybody knows from statistics that cheaters cheat anyway, honor code or not, and the fact that most schools would try to keep that kind of information from the press, the Air Force Academy seems kind of proud! Good for them.
The Navy (and I will be objective here as always) had a big scandal in 1994 that lead to an EIGHTEEN MONTH INVESTIGATION. "Officials said... the 24 expelled midshipmen will not be required to repay the academy for their educations, which cost as much as $90,000. Nor did he order them to serve for three years in the enlisted ranks. Current seniors will be allowed to finish their spring courses but will not get academy degrees." So basically, nothing was even done after doing the eighteen month investigation. It teaches students to cheat as seniors to get out of the committment.
"The cheating incident occurred when an unknown number of midshipmen obtained copies of a stolen electrical engineering exam a few days before it was given. Investigators for the naval inspector general found that 134 midshipmen were involved in varying degrees. Some were accused of buying and selling copies of the exam for as much as $50. Others were charged with writing formulas and other information on index cards based on the exam and using the cards in the examination room. Still others were accused of lying to investigators about their knowledge of the cheating.
"I admitted I was guilty," said Lance Barnes, a defensive end on the 1993 football team. "The bottom line is ... that people were kept for doing the same thing I did. I don't understand why I am different from my classmates."
This is really sickening, considering these people beat others out, possibly other cheaters :icon_rage Then, these people cannot take responsibility for their actions whatsoever. (In defense of the USNA, they brought in an ethics course and other improvements to highlight morals to their students.)
