Sound familiar?
Cheating!
Students today are cheating their way through their education with great ease and skill.
What does the culture of cheating say about education, students, society even you and I?
I am worried that if our youth cheat through education what hope do we have when it comes to business?
http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/bateman/Ways%20to%20Cheat.htm
Ways Students Cheat Today
After surveying 350+ UW-Madison students, these are the ways that students admitted to cheating:
- Plagiarism
- Taping a cheat sheet to a water bottle
- Programming notes into a calculator
- Text messaging exam information
- Headphones
- Writing on hand, arm, or other body part
- Writing on desk
- Sitting on a cheat sheet
- Putting notes on the floor/on your bag
- Looking at another student’s exam
- Buying papers online
- Turning in old papers from fraternity/sorority houses or friends papers
- Turning in the same paper for more than once class
- Having someone who took the test before you tell the student what questions are on the exam
- Copying another student’s homework
- Taking credit for group work that the student did not do
- Altering lab data
- Writing answers on gum wrappers
- Having another friend write a paper or take an exam
With the rise of technology comes news ways to cheat. Below are articles that address regarding technological advances and the classroom.
Articles:
- Internet gives rise to a bold new era in college-student cheating (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Consumer Technology; Putting Tech to the Test: As students turn to high-tech gadgets to cheat, schools consider turning to high-tech gadgets to stop them (Wall Street Journal, Sep 17, 2004)
- How to stop cheating at universities (Vancouver Sun, Sep 8, 2004)
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