Bad Grades in School
Education’s Cheating Epidemic
Cheating was is and always will be a fact of life. With technology there are new ways to cheat. However we can not blame our technology for someone else’s cheating. Students tell me that math is the easiest subject in which to cheat in. (Dorff, par 3) They’ve figured out how to program calculators to have all the answers for their tests. An English teacher said she no longer counts her vocabulary quizzes in her students grades because she hasn’t found a way to stop them from cheating. In a survey of students I asked what the though of the idea of requiring next semesters students to sign a pledge that simply said “I will not lie, cheat or steal.” most said it would be a great idea but some said it wouldn’t change a thing. (Dorff, par 6) As a penalty the thought giving an F on the assignment would do something but didn’t so then they tried giving a F on the report card didn’t do anything they put the names of the cheaters on a public wall of shame. They said it was to far. That implies that students care about their public rep. so the wall of shame might be really effective. Parents, students, and administrators complain that there is to much cheating in their school. (Dorff, par 11) But then point at each other when their asked who should be reasonable for fixing the problem. But something has to change. (Dorff, par11) Cheating needs to be addressed as pare of a cultural problem as part. It is up to us to make it unacceptable not only in schools but also throughout society. (Dorff, par 12) That time-honored anti-cheating mantra, “you’re only hurting your self”, may be a literal, according to new research. (Sparks, par 1) four experiments were done in March 2011 proceeding of the national academy of sciences researchers from the Harvard business school and duke university found that cheaters pay for the short-term benefits of higher scores with inflated expectation for future performance. (Sparks, par 3 ) Surveys and studies show
Cheating was is and always will be a fact of life. With technology there are new ways to cheat. However we can not blame our technology for someone else’s cheating. Students tell me that math is the easiest subject in which to cheat in. (Dorff, par 3) They’ve figured out how to program calculators to have all the answers for their tests. An English teacher said she no longer counts her vocabulary quizzes in her students grades because she hasn’t found a way to stop them from cheating. In a survey of students I asked what the though of the idea of requiring next semesters students to sign a pledge that simply said “I will not lie, cheat or steal.” most said it would be a great idea but some said it wouldn’t change a thing. (Dorff, par 6) As a penalty the thought giving an F on the assignment would do something but didn’t so then they tried giving a F on the report card didn’t do anything they put the names of the cheaters on a public wall of shame. They said it was to far. That implies that students care about their public rep. so the wall of shame might be really effective. Parents, students, and administrators complain that there is to much cheating in their school. (Dorff, par 11) But then point at each other when their asked who should be reasonable for fixing the problem. But something has to change. (Dorff, par11) Cheating needs to be addressed as pare of a cultural problem as part. It is up to us to make it unacceptable not only in schools but also throughout society. (Dorff, par 12) That time-honored anti-cheating mantra, “you’re only hurting your self”, may be a literal, according to new research. (Sparks, par 1) four experiments were done in March 2011 proceeding of the national academy of sciences researchers from the Harvard business school and duke university found that cheaters pay for the short-term benefits of higher scores with inflated expectation for future performance. (Sparks, par 3 ) Surveys and studies show