...expected behaviors with respect to cheating and plagiarism. Abstract This article is required reading by all students. It outlines the expected behaviors with respect to cheating and plagiarism. Student Conduct & academic honesty Ethics in Education Student Conduct & academic honesty Ethics in Education STUDENT CONDUCT AND ACADEMIC HONESTY Table of Contents WHAT IS THE DISRUPTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES? 2 WHAT IS CHEATING? 2 WHAT IS PLAGIARISM? 3 WHAT ARE THE STUDENTS’ RESPONSIBILITIES TO AVOID PLAGIARISM? 3 WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES FOR PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING? 2 WHAT IS THE DISRUPTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES? At Okanagan College (OC), disruption of instructional activities includes student “conduct which interferes with examinations, lectures, seminars, tutorials, group meetings, other related activities, and with students using the study facilities of OC”, as well as conduct that leads to property damage, assault, discrimination, harassment and fraud. Penalties for disruption of instructional activities include a range of sanctions from a warning and/or a failing grade on an assignment, examination or course to suspension from OC. WHAT IS CHEATING? Students must submit independently written work. Students may not write collaborative assignments with other students unless the instructor approves it in advance. Students who share their work with other students are equally involved in cheating. “Cheating includes but is not limited to dishonest...
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...Cheating in School Team C Cheating in school has become much more common than many people would think. In studies done over the past five years, cheating has increased over 40% (Etter, Cramer, & Finn, 2006). What was the catalyst that caused this ethical breakdown in students over the years? Why is it considered more acceptable now than in years past? Who cheats more and why? When does the student feel the need to cheat as opposed to doing the work themselves? Where does someone who is studying online find the resources to cheat? Because so many questions arise when discussing this topic it becomes difficult for one to find answers to all these questions. 18th century writer Samuel Johnson stated, “mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” (Boswell, Quotation by Samuel Johnson: 1750) Cheating has become a very intense topic over the years with the onset of online education. Everyone who desires an education should realize the important fact although the tools are out there and it has become easier to cheat, it has also become much easier to get caught. The internet has played an advanced role in the aid of assisting students in cheating; however, it has also played a useful roll in catching them as well. Online websites such as schoolsucks.com, flashpapers.com, and hundreds of others have made buying a term...
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...Cheating has always been looked down upon in society, but it still thrives in the classrooms of schools and universities. It doesn't seem to matter whether it is right or wrong, just as long as it gets you that A you were looking for. Cheating has grown over the past few years and the question is why? Who's to blame? I know cheating occurs in Bacon Academy. I'll even be so honest to admit that I have participated in cheating once or twice in my high school career. Even so, I know it's not okay; and there are serious punishments if you are caught: there will be a zero on the assignment, and a suspension if you plagiarize. Ouch, cheating definitely doesn't sound worth the risk. So why do we do it? Cheating is done for multiple reasons. Sometimes it's done just to help out a friend. Your neighbor asks about a question during a test and you reply with the answer just to be courteous, nothing more than that. There's no deeper reason, other than maybe one day your neighbor will be able to return the favor. Another form of cheating is the "!%#&, I forgot to study for this test, but the smartest person in the room is sitting right next to me" reason. Some people figure there's no harm because they're going to do poorly anyway. But some people cheat because they're lazy or just don't care. All of these reasons don't make it okay to cheat, and its recurrence in school is an issue. Bacon has all types of cheating, and it can be blamed individually on the teachers, the students themselves...
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...CHEATING Definition Cheating is defined as the intentional act of breaking the rules, or attempting to achieve personal gain through fraud or deceit.16 To cheat is to deprive of something valuable by the use ofdeceit or fraud, to influence or lead by deceit, trick, or artifice, to practice fraud or trickery, to violate rules dishonestly, or to be sexually unfaithful.11 A cheater (sometimes called acheat) gets something by dishonesty or deception; or by depriving one of his or her rights and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth; or by large-scale cheating bymisrepresentation or abuse of confidence.11 Cheating is an act of lying, deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition. Cheating characteristically is employed to create an unfair advantage, usually in one's own interest, and often at the expense of others. Cheating implies the breaking of rules. Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less, often used when referring to marital infidelity.3 Cheating is when a person misleads, deceives, or acts dishonestly on purpose.17 Cheating fundamentally includes several elements of both lying and stealing, with specific motivations to gain something of value by illegitimate means. That is why lying and stealing are discussed before cheating. Cheating is lying and/or stealing with the intention for acquiring something for more than merely the "pleasure" of fooling or depriving others. Children Cheating as a concept is not understood by children...
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...Behavior of Business Students and Bayview University It was found that during the timeframe between 2008 and 2009 that many in the business world behaved in an unethical way. It was believed that the cause of this behavior was a result of cheating while the individuals were enrolled in a University. The College of Business at Bayview University believed that the issue of cheating was much worse at their University compared to other institutions. This report was developed to help determine and study the cheating tendencies of 90 students. This test was given during and exit interview to help elevate any potential repercussions to the results. All statistical information can be found in Tables A1-A4. In addition to the statistical information, the confidence testing results and hypothesis testing can be found in Tables A5-A7. The students were asked three questions: * Did you ever copy work off the Internet as your own? * Did you ever copy answers off another student’s exam? * Did you ever collaborate with other students on a project that was supposed to be completed individually? A total of 90 students responded to the questionnaire with the group divided into 48 male and 42 female students. The data showed that 41.11% of the students cheated in some way. The results also concluded that 37.5% of the male students were more likely to collaborate on a projected compared to 26.19% of the female students. The survey also showed that 21.43% of the female students...
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...Cheating in any form in my opinion is wrong. Cheating is a common practice in schools, businesses, sports, relationships, and so forth. Although cheating happens to others, the cheaters are also cheating themselves. I believe cheating in schools common due to the pressure students feel. Schools set high academic standards in which students are expected to live up to. Parents of students also expect their children to do well and exceed in school. Student feel they must do well in order to impress and do whatever it takes, including cheating, to get the best grades. Due to the ecomomical collapse our country has faced over the past few years this has caused businesses to be dishonest. An example is of a business that managed people retirement. Many people trusted businesses to handle their retirement only to realize that they had been scammed. Hundreds of people found out that their retirement had been embezzled and they were left with nothing. This financial gain for the company proved to be unworthy and jail time was received. We also see cheating in sports. Lance Amstrong was accused of using steroids for enhancement. This is also see among other athlete’s including wrestling, baseball, basketball, and football. Mandated testing is being mandated to prevent such illegal things from occurring. Relationships also suffer due to cheating. Instead of couples talking things out or getting counseling the resort to finding other people to satisfy their needs and desires...
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...FROM ABCNEWS.COM A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools April 29 Angelo Angelis, a professor at Hunter College in New York City, was recently grading some student papers on the story of Paul Revere when he noticed something strange. A certain passage kept appearing in his students' work, he said. It went like this, Angelis told Primetime's Charles Gibson: "Paul Revere would never have said, 'The British are coming, the British are coming,' he was in fact himself British, he would have said something like, 'the Red Coats are coming.' " Angelis typed the words into Google, and found the passage on one Web site by a fifth-grade class. Half a dozen of his college students had copied their work from a bunch of elementary school kids, he thought. The Web site was very well done, Angelis said. For fifth graders, he would give them an "A." But his college students deserved an "F". Lifting papers off the Internet is one of the newer trends in plagiarism — and technology is giving students even more ways to cheat nowadays. Authoritative numbers are hard to come by, but according to a 2002 confidential survey of 12,000 high school students, 74 percent admitted cheating on an examination at least once in the past year. In a six-month investigation, Primetime traveled to colleges and high schools across the country to see how students are cheating, and why. The bottom line is not just that many students have more temptation — but they seem to have a whole new mindset. Get Real ...
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...restraints, improper planning or just misinformation can all lead to plagiarism. Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism is still unethical and illegal. In America’s demanding and competitive society, ethics may have taken a back seat all in the name of progress. Technology has allowed people to enjoy a more advanced, more efficient quality of life, though this also may contribute to the ease with which students are “dishonest.” Plagiarism will certainly affect more than just students education. With the population growing in our nation, so does the number of students attending the public and private universities that this nation has to offer. A major issue with students is their ability to adhere to the “codes of conduct” that schools and...
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...College of Business & Management Department of Management, Marketing and Public Administration Ethics & Islamic Values in Business Section (53) Course number (0302350) Assignment 1 Written by Araam Jamal U00035221 To Dr. Alaa-Aldin Abdul Rahim A. Al Athmay For this assignment, you will carefully read the story below that summarizes the incident, behaviors associated with cheating using technology, and how you can relate this story to your own situation. You should incorporate answers to the following questions into your assignment, as they are related to issues of integrity, ethics, professionalism, and personal reflection: - Why do students cheat? What can be done to address cheating in schools? - What lessons have you learned from the case? Has learning about this case inspired you to make changes in your own life? - How do you relate this behavior to ethics from the Islamic perspective? Assignment Requirements: Length: Minimum 750 words (Approximately 2.5 typed pages, 12 pt font, 1.5-spaced) Style: This paper should be written in an academic style. The tone of your work should be thoughtful and respectful. Be sure to edit your work for grammatical and spelling errors. Papers must be submitted to the instructor by 11:59 pm on the stated due date. Reading Case: Cheating and Technology 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...
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...For a number of reasons, people do not always stick to the truth when they speak. Some of the reasons are justifiable—for example, humane considerations such as tact and the avoidance of greater harm. Reassuring an ungainly teenager that he or she looks great may be a kind embroidery of the truth. In a more consequential instance, misinforming storm troopers about the whereabouts of a hidden family during the Nazi occupation of Europe was an honorable and courageous deception. Honesty is not a wholly detached moral virtue demanding strict allegiance at all times. Compassion, diplomacy, and life-threatening circumstances sometimes require a departure from the entire unadulterated truth. Some vocations seem to demand occasional deception for success or survival. Politicians, for example, are especially hard-pressed to tell the truth consistently. Perhaps this is because, as George Orwell once observed, the very function of political speech is to hide, soften, or misrepresent difficult truths. Orwell was clearly skeptical about any expectation to the contrary. In “Politics and the English Language,” he put it this way: “Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Although in this case Orwell himself may have been guilty of overstatement for purposes of rhetorical effect, his claim cannot be totally...
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...Hurley English 151 RW 3/2/15 There are a few factors why cheating scandal started in Park Middle School. No Child Left Behind, Poverty, Superintendent Beverly Hall, Principle Waller and Damany Lewis are the main factors. Education systems, setting high standard for schools that are in an impoverished area, have made teachers as well as principle to use unlawful way to meet the systems target. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Law, sets a standard for every school in the states. The Law requires 58% of students passing math and 68% of students passing language art, or Parks would be classified as a “school in need of improvement” for sixth year and the state could shut down the school. According to Rachel Aviv, “the Law requires public-school student to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.” This is giving teachers pressure and making the teachers to use other forms of method such as cheating. On the other hand, if the school were to achieve this target, the teacher and the staff would be rewarded. This relates to quote from the Gold Star Junkies article ”Rewards or Punishments are not only ineffective at motivating people, but are counterproductive and they might lose interest in the activity” This is saying that if Education system trying to pressure and reward the teacher, It would be counterproductive and resulting in teacher cheating. Atlanta’s school superintendent, Beverly Hall, approached her job like a business executive. She pressure the teacher and principal that if they...
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...ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: ARE MORE STUDENTS CHEATING? Dorothy L. R. Jones Norfolk State University ACADEMIC DISHONESTY, with Internet plagiarism as one of the most common forms, is a concern on college and university campuses more than ever before. A review of the literature validates these concerns. According to a 2003 nationwide research study of 23 public and private colleges and universities, conducted by Donald L. McCabe, Internet plagiarism is on the rise. Thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate students surveyed indicated that they had engaged in Internet plagiarism (as cited in Rimer, 2003). Brown, Weible, and Olmosk (2010) found that 49% of students in undergraduate marketing classes admitted cheating in 1988 versus 100% of the students in an undergraduate management class in 2008; a national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of the students surveyed admitted to Internet plagiarism and 76% admitted to cheating; and the Center for Academic Integrity found almost 80% of the college students surveyed admitted to cheating at least once (“Facts About Plagiarism,” 2011). In May 2006, Ohio University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering plagiarism scandal garnered national attention when a review panel found “rampant and flagrant” forms of plagiarism in 34 master’s theses (Grose, 2006); and in November 2010, more than 200 of the 600 students in a University of Central Florida business class confessed that they benefited from accessing online test questions...
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...Honesty Growth in school echoes from growth as a person. Dishonesty causes erosion of core values making one indecisive and having loss of self respect. Academic dishonesty is a shortcut that robs one of the benefits of learning. When colleges and universities have standards of integrity, the society and higher education reaps benefit providing foundation for a vibrant academic life, thus developing students to be responsible for future. Academic Integrity is a commitment even when the world is facing adversity. Values like trust, fairness, honesty, respect and responsibility makes principles of behavior to act academically (Center for academic integrity, 1999). Academic integrity makes others to believe in you for your honesty and act accordingly. Also, trust is a key ingredient in being a fortunate leader. Developing good ethical habits while in college helps one when entering a new workplace. Secondly, such a trait is valued by employers and they would rather invest in human capital that brings a positive impact on their organization. Acting consistently reduces lot of tension in life and makes a person more healthy and productive (Bauer.uh.edu, 2015). To analyze the importance on Academic integrity and honesty, following book and articles were examined. 1. Academic Integrity: Study and Guide 2. Making the case for the Creation of an Academic Honesty and Integrity Culture in higher education 3. Promoting a Culture of Academic Integrity 4. Moving from cheating to Academic Honesty ...
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...definition of cheating in the academic realm. With the availability of smart phones, portable laptop computers and online courses, students have found a way to use these tools to their advantage. As we will discuss in this paper something as simple as a text message or photo message can allow the student the ability to easily complete an exam or assignment without putting in the necessary time to correctly learn the material. The reason cheating with technology has grown is because the actual meaning of cheating has changed in the eyes of new students. The actual definition is a violation of intellectual property but, if the act is not seen by others as wrong, then it can be justified. We intend on showing the means used by cheaters to advance themselves to achieve an “education” and the measures taken by learning institutions to curb this epidemic. There are many different things which seemingly contribute towards the current increasing problem of cheating at the University level. While the concept of cheating has been around for years, recent studies and indications show that cheating do too many factors including larger college classes and technological advances such as the widespread use of the internet and mobile computing devices, make cheating both easier and much more widespread throughout college campuses nationwide. Technology devices like picture phones, mobile devices with texting and internet capabilities heavily contribute towards the widespread problem of cheating at the...
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...education. The majority of Americans now have hectic schedules, whether it is working multiple jobs, or staying home and taking care of the kids, life can obstruct the view of completing their education. Online education, one of the most significant inventions within the internet, provides flexible learning schedules to busy individuals; therefore, it is no surprise that online education courses have become increasingly popular, impacted the educational system, and greatly affected many of our lives. According to a study done by the American Sociological Association, online courses have become popular for those who are working students, looking for flexible schedules, have been kicked out of school and need to redeem themselves, and/or simply like the convenience of not having to commute to school. Since the inception of online college courses, enrollment for online classes has been steadily increasing with demand. In fact, according to William Casement’s study on whether online classes will also decrease the cost of tuition, he stated that, “in 2011, 87 percent of institutions offered at least some courses online and 32 percent of college students took at least one online course” (Casement, 2013). In 2010, a completely separate study by Simon Lei and Rajeev Govra explained why students choose to attend an online course as...
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