Cheating In School
I will never forget my first experience with "academic dishonesty." It was my junior year of high school and my chemistry teacher was not too adequate, to say the least. He gave his lectures in inhuman speeds and still expected us to understand every pearl of wisdom that came out of his mouth! God forbid we ever asked him a question to clarify the topic he was lecturing about. "Weren't you paying attention?" was the only answer he would give to every question we would ask. The day of our first exam arrived and nobody in the class was really prepared to take it. How could we be with the way he taught that class? But one of the students was prepared in another way. He had made up a 'cheat sheet', which contained the answer to every potential question that would be on the exam. Before the teacher entered the classroom, the cheat sheet was passed around the class for all of us to copy. When the teacher finally came in and passed out the exam, we all proceeded to use our cheat she!ets to answer the multiple-choice exam with tremendous ease, including me. I definitely knew cheating was wrong, but the whole time I was doing this, it never occurred to me that I was really cheating. It only seemed to be the most simple and logical solut
------------------------------------------------------------------------ correct answers out loud while students were taking the test, breaking seals on the packets of the tests before the test date and giving students the vocabulary words [to study from] (Detroit News, 1997), among other things. The teachers wanted the students to pass so badly that they performed these illegal and immoral actions to ensure success. If the students did well, then the teachers look good. It's that simple. How? How are the students cheating? In all retrospect, cheating has never been easier. While using crib notes and other traditional cheating techniques are still commonly used today, modern technology has made it even easier for cheaters to cheat and get away with it. The Internet is the big key in all this, which now allows students to download online term papers and chat rooms where students can share science reports and math solutions. Email is also a factor; enabling students to transmit test questions and answers to each other. Hackers can enter the school's mainframe and change transcript information. Cell phones are used to dial multiple-choice answers to alphanumeric pagers and beepers. "Among Y2K cheating wonders are pagers and Palm Pilots with infrared technology that can beam messages (and test answers) across the room" (Bruinius, 1999). ion to avoid a potential "F" on my spotless record. Even looking back now, I do not regret my choice of action and I am almost certain that most students in a similar predicament would do the same thing. Why would anyone cheat when we all know that it is wrong? What's the problem here? And what can we do to stop it? What can be done? So what can we do to curb students from cheating? "Teachers' anti-cheating strategies range from talking with students about their mistakes to giving cheaters zeros to simply structuring assignments so cheating becomes extremely difficult" (Education World, 2000). One of the most widely used deterrents by teachers is simply talking to the students about what is cheating and what is not on the first day of class. Just telling them what is expected of the students and what the punishments are for cheating can make a difference. Also, since most students believe that
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