2008 Woodie Awards
Academic integrity statement revised
Lisa Oesterreicher
Issue date: 11/14/05 Section: News
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Some students cheat. Some get caught and others are able to cheat their way to the top. Still, much of society seems to think indifferently about cheating and getting away with it.
Academic dishonesty is growing on college campuses worldwide. In a survey of 6,096 undergraduates on 31 campuses, Donald McCabe, professor at Rutgers and founder of the Center of Academic Integrity, reported that 67.4 percent admitted to cheating at least once on a test or major assignment.
While it's true that new technology has made cheating easier than ever, many people believe it is becoming more of an acceptable norm in our society.
According to research by McCabe and Penn State professor Linda Trevino, students who are in athletics and fraternities/sororities are more likely to cheat than those who aren't.
Studies have also indicated that business majors are more likely to cheat than non-business students. Also, numbers have shown that business majors are much more tolerant of academic dishonesty, as well.
Students are most likely to cheat, however, if they are aware other students are cheating and therefore find it to be commonplace. According to McCabe and Trevino, a lack of clear cheating policies in colleges may lead students to think that everyone participates in some form of cheating and are able to get away with it.
Along with cheating growing on college campuses, the cheating process has grown to new levels. Traditional methods of cheating have seemed to evolve as well. Cheat sheets, writing answers on your hand, and whispering to your neighbor are considered old compared to new ways created by advancements of techonolgy.
The "modern" student is now introducing in-class cheating methods that make writing on your hand seem old-fashioned. Gadgets like programmable calculators, personal data assistants, and cell phones are accessible to college students and easy to use for cheating.
Students can program mathematical formulas and actual text into their calculator's memory. The psychology department at Lewis University combats this problem by purchasing calculators of their own and having students use them during tests.
Academic dishonesty is growing on college campuses worldwide. In a survey of 6,096 undergraduates on 31 campuses, Donald McCabe, professor at Rutgers and founder of the Center of Academic Integrity, reported that 67.4 percent admitted to cheating at least once on a test or major assignment.
While it's true that new technology has made cheating easier than ever, many people believe it is becoming more of an acceptable norm in our society.
According to research by McCabe and Penn State professor Linda Trevino, students who are in athletics and fraternities/sororities are more likely to cheat than those who aren't.
Studies have also indicated that business majors are more likely to cheat than non-business students. Also, numbers have shown that business majors are much more tolerant of academic dishonesty, as well.
Students are most likely to cheat, however, if they are aware other students are cheating and therefore find it to be commonplace. According to McCabe and Trevino, a lack of clear cheating policies in colleges may lead students to think that everyone participates in some form of cheating and are able to get away with it.
Along with cheating growing on college campuses, the cheating process has grown to new levels. Traditional methods of cheating have seemed to evolve as well. Cheat sheets, writing answers on your hand, and whispering to your neighbor are considered old compared to new ways created by advancements of techonolgy.
The "modern" student is now introducing in-class cheating methods that make writing on your hand seem old-fashioned. Gadgets like programmable calculators, personal data assistants, and cell phones are accessible to college students and easy to use for cheating.
Students can program mathematical formulas and actual text into their calculator's memory. The psychology department at Lewis University combats this problem by purchasing calculators of their own and having students use them during tests.
