Monday, October 1, 2012

         In "Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception" Richard Perez Pena reveals that cheating is happening at great schools. He explains high achievers are just as likely to do it as others. Also teachers are not doing much to stop it as said in the article.

         In the article it includes quotes from professors. One quote that I paid attention to was that few schools put any emphasis on integrity,academic or otherwise and colleges are more indifferent than high schools. This shows that schools may not really care. This really made me confused since I thought that a college education would be more than high school education but not if they don't care about what you do.

         I think that cheating is going to be around for a long time. I can't think of a way that people can stop it unless you separate each and every single student. So to me you will just have to deal with the cheating for many years unless they decide to do something as crazy as that. If people put their expectations down and stop putting so much pressure on students maybe they wont feel the need to cheat.

         This article made me wonder about cheating at my school. Do students at my school cheat on big test, or are we following the rules? Also do any teachers try to stop it or just let it happen? I might find the answers from interviewing teachers at school and some students. This is a big problem in schools as it says in the article so getting to the answer will be helpful.
     

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