Academic Integrity: Dishonest Or Be Cheated?

Cheating is like a survival instinct, always engraved into the back of our mind, it’s there just incase we need it. It may be hard to get rid of completely, but can we lessen the rates of cheating? Students feel the need to cheat because they aren’t comfortable with what they are learning or they’re scared to fail. If you take your time trying to teach students rather than preparing them for tests, they may not feel the need to cheat as much.
Some may believe that the students don’t fully understand that cheating is wrong, they don’t know what counts as cheating, or they just don’t care anymore, but it’s actually the opposite. When faced with the “Academic Honesty Survey”, created by a team of english teachers at PLHS, most participants knew what counted as dishonest, knew what was okay to do and what was not. Knowing what’s right and wrong doesn’t always stop people from doing an act …show more content…
one way to help prevent cheating is to focus on learning rather than cramming for a test. If you take time with teaching and give the students different way to learn they will probably understand the content better(6). Giving the students more options than just an end of unit test like projects, presentations, and class discussions help alleviate the stress that major testing can cause(8). Everyone learns differently and by presenting different ways to learn you give everyone a chance to comprehend the subject at hand.
Student’s use cheating as a safety net. They use it when they feel like they are in danger, in this case danger can be seen as getting a bad grade. With the pressure others put on the students to be perfect and the best at everything you could see why some might feel the need to use their “safety net”. The solution to lessen cheating is simple, make students feel like they don’t need an easy way out, make them feel comfortable with content, and stop making them so