cheating
Akinwumi IfeOluwa
Cause and effect essay
Why students cheat
“In 2008 behavioral economist Dan Ariely of Duke University and his colleagues described what happened when they asked college students to solve math puzzles for cash rewards. When the researchers changed the experimental conditions such that the students assumed the examiner could not detect cheating, the average self-reported test score rose significantly. The researchers determined that the scores were not inflated by a few students who cheated a lot but rather by many students cheating a little.” Cheating is a form of dishonesty which could involve academic dishonesty such as plagiarism. There are several reasons why students cheat, reasons such as constant pressure; both from parents and peers, lack of confidence in their ability, it often provides the easiest way out, laziness, procrastination and many more. Fast facts provide that cheating is astoundingly common, a survey also reveals that about three fourths of 1,800 students at nine universities admitted to cheating both in assignments and tests.
Students often cheat because of constant pressure; pressure from parents, pressure from friends. Parent often pressurize their children to do well academically and many parents put intense pressure on their children to earn perfect grades, no matter the cost, however, many parents often rely mostly on the grades rather than what they gain from school. Parents often tend to fill their children’s head with some ‘horror stories’ about people who do not go through college, often telling them that they would end up on the streets and they would become a nuisance to the society. So in order for many of them not be in the situations of the ‘horror stories’, many of them cheat. For students in this kind of situation, failing is not an option, so in order not to fail, they cheat.
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WHY WE CHEAT. By: FANG, FERRIC C., CASADEVALL, ARTURO, Scientific
Cause and effect essay
Why students cheat
“In 2008 behavioral economist Dan Ariely of Duke University and his colleagues described what happened when they asked college students to solve math puzzles for cash rewards. When the researchers changed the experimental conditions such that the students assumed the examiner could not detect cheating, the average self-reported test score rose significantly. The researchers determined that the scores were not inflated by a few students who cheated a lot but rather by many students cheating a little.” Cheating is a form of dishonesty which could involve academic dishonesty such as plagiarism. There are several reasons why students cheat, reasons such as constant pressure; both from parents and peers, lack of confidence in their ability, it often provides the easiest way out, laziness, procrastination and many more. Fast facts provide that cheating is astoundingly common, a survey also reveals that about three fourths of 1,800 students at nine universities admitted to cheating both in assignments and tests.
Students often cheat because of constant pressure; pressure from parents, pressure from friends. Parent often pressurize their children to do well academically and many parents put intense pressure on their children to earn perfect grades, no matter the cost, however, many parents often rely mostly on the grades rather than what they gain from school. Parents often tend to fill their children’s head with some ‘horror stories’ about people who do not go through college, often telling them that they would end up on the streets and they would become a nuisance to the society. So in order for many of them not be in the situations of the ‘horror stories’, many of them cheat. For students in this kind of situation, failing is not an option, so in order not to fail, they cheat.
Where I got it from
Paragraph 1
Title:
WHY WE CHEAT. By: FANG, FERRIC C., CASADEVALL, ARTURO, Scientific