Abstract Cheating behavior of university students was investigated in a two-instrument study. In this study‚ 41 students evaluated the acceptability of an act of dishonesty under 24 different circumstances where a person’s motive for transgressing differed. Results indicated that college students took motives into account when evaluating the acceptability of cheating. Acceptance of cheating behavior was expected to be more common among male students than females and younger students than older
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CAUSE AND EFFECT CHEATING ON COLLEGE EXAMS Although there are a lot of just and honest students in colleges right now others don’t care about their education. Students continually try to cheat their way trough graduation. But the dilemma comes when they find out that the consequences are more significant that the grade they received. Nowadays there are a lot of uninvolved parents‚ most of them don’t sit with their child to help them with their homework or talk to them about the importance of school
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Cheating in Exams One day I had an exam and I shocked when I saw my best friend cheat and I start wondering why she did that despite she was smart and hard work‚ people especially student cheat in all stages (young or adults) nevertheless they know that cheating is wrong and bad behavior even in Islam as a Muslims cheating is prohibited as prophet Mohammed said "who cheat us is not of us " there are many reasons why students cheat in exams. First reason for cheating
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Rationale of the Study 1.1 Background Cheating on exams has become a popular phenomenon all over the world regardless of the levels of development. For instance‚ Baerthlein (2008)‚ from Germany‚ described that over the past decade‚ cheating has become more and more common as an act of academic dishonesty. Referring to the latest statistics she expressed her concern on the alarming rate as more than two thirds of high school students admitted cheating on an exam last year. The same trend was documented
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Cheating in College “Cheating is to deceive by trickery; swindle” (Dictionary.com). From time to time‚ every person has cheated. The problem of cheating‚ or academic dishonesty is not a new problem in college. Ever since there have been exams to cheat on‚ papers to copy‚ and homework to be copied. More and more‚ faculty is trying to understand why students cheat‚ and how to combat cheating. There are a number of reasons that students cheat are that they want to get good grades‚ it is an easy work
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The exam at school is one of the most simple way to evaluate the performance of students in large scale. Some people think that cheating in exams is really a serious moral offense. But in reality at various school‚ cheating sometimes can be acceptable for certain reasons. Firstly‚ the serious people allege that exams are the legitimate measuring sticks of students’ ability and performance. They must give exact results with justice. But when putting this situation under consideration‚ the perspective
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Cheating Student There is a big problem in schools‚ especially high school and university that some students always cheat when they have the exam. School is a place that provides the education for students. Before educate students‚ the school has to test the ability of students many time in order to predict that they have enough ability to use their knowledge in their life. However‚ if the test is not able to work well‚ so what will be happened? So that‚ there are two main reasons that cause
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These days‚ cheating in exams became a serious problem not just because students don’t work anymore but because they become lazy; that means that they don’t make any efforts and want others to help hem. This problem has very bad effects‚ which I will talk about in the body. Firstly‚ when students get great marks‚ their teacher will think that they got the lesson and will start another one‚ which is not the case; but how can the teacher know? The more dangerous thing in this case is that when
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The causes and effects of students cheating The main reason why people go to school is to learn for the future. When a student cheats he is failing to prove that he understands the material and the student have also missed the main reason with go to school‚ to learn. The students who cheats claims that they understand what they are doing but really they don´t. The teachers believe that the student understands and does not know that the student is struggling. If the student is struggling‚ he may not
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“Back in 1940‚ only 20 percent of college students admitted to cheating during their academic careers. Today‚ that number has increased to 75-98 percent.” (http:// education-portal.com) The problem is that cheating has become so common‚ it has become almost impossible for schools to stop it. Most cheating starts in middle school‚ and then can go on past college. It’s no longer about the education‚ but only about the grades. Students will do whatever it takes to get an A and feel justified in doing
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