Academic Honesty/Integrity
Plagiarism
Collusion
Fabricating Information
What Increases/Reduces Cheating
Factors that influence cheating
How do people justify cheating
Verbatim plagiarism
when you directly copy a text from a source and paste it into your own document without giving citation or create the source.
Self Plagiarism
When a student submits his or her work, or mixes parts of previous works, without permission from all professors involved.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Occurs when a writer copies material from several writers and rearranges that material with no attempt to acknowledge the original sources.
Fabrication is defined as the falsification of information or the invention of data. If a lab report or write-up of the results of a scientific experiment is submitted with information that is deliberately false, the student has created fictitious data. In order words, he deliberately fabricated his results to support his initial hypothesis.
Collusion happens when more than one student contributes to a piece of work that is submitted as the work of an individual.
Do not provide work for another student to submit as a part of their own assessment or vice versa.
Cheating
A cheating example is using a paper from a student who had the class in a previous year.
Some factors that influence cheating is stress. They are stressed to maintain a grade and cheating for that student is like the only option.
What increases cheating is all of the websites where you can look up answers and get all the information online. Cheating has been reduced by companies creating restrictions on what you can look up at a university or school.
People justify cheating by saying that they have never cheated because they have never got caught.
Why do students cheat?
Motivational factors like academic confidence.
Students are stressed and the only thing they need to do is cheat.
They get anxiety from the virtual covid class.
Students like to have all A's but most do not like to do all of the work.
Students also want to make their parents and peers proud by having good letter grades.
What is a consequence if caught?
Students can get a call home.
Fail and retake class
Not prepared for the work force
Get kicked out of college
Your peers will not think good of you.
What can be done about it?
Students can ask for help from teachers.
Get tutors to help out with assignments
There are websites that can block certain websites that allow students to cheat.
Instructors need to make the topic more interesting and be engaged in class more.
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Students have had an increase in anxiety and stress.
Surveillance systems in college have caught tons of students cheating.
The cheating in colleges is up by 700%
Online sources have been saying students are using technology for answers.
They are using websites like photomath for answers in math. That apps growth rate is trending up.
Is the problem of cheating getting better or worse?