Is the honor code working efficiently in high schools and colleges across the country? Board members and staff are questioning if students are more likely to respect an honor code if it’s pushed upon them or not. An honor code needs as much students involvement as it can receive, and is needed in many schools across the country, but it must be introduced and explained in the right way. An honor code needs to be instilled in universities and high schools, one that students respect by informing them of the risks when breaking the honor code, seeing what their students values on honesty are, and showing them the rewards and positives the honor code would bring.
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They must be able to trust in their own classmates. “Students expectations about the integrity of their classmates can determine whether the college culture reinforces honesty.’ (Source C). When everyone is able to trust the people beside them in a classroom, cheating will take a decline, because the individual will want to do their own work if they know that the people beside them are also doing their own work. Colleges must also have a very “well-publicized honor code” (Source C). Because “if the population behaves like honest” types than it will increase the impression that everyone is honest and make being caught for cheating even worse. (Source C). Showing just how much people will conform to the atmosphere they’re in and how if honesty becomes the norm of an environment it will become what people conform to. Making their risks of being caught a cheater even higher because of the people they will be surrounded …show more content…
“Out of 275 responses in a survey, only 65 said the honor code was discussed in class” (Source E). This must change if students are expected to follow an honor code and know of what it can offer them. More informed students will make following the honor code more successful in colleges and high schools. In one college “the key to their success seems to be encouraging students involvement in developing community standards on academic dishonesty and ensuring their subsequent acceptance by the larger community.” (Source F). Being accepted into a community is what everyone wants, so if informing students thating follow an honor code will allow them to be accepted into a community, then it will be done more willingly. “Responsibilities they have assumed as members of the campus community, convinces many students, most of whom cheated in high school, to change their behavior.” (Source F). Students need to be given positive perspectives on honor codes to see what they could have by joining in on honor codes. For example, knowing they can trust each other “students and faculty [want] to live in complete trust of one another.” (Source
Too many students know of an honor code, but don’t respect it. In order for an honor …show more content…
They must be able to trust in their own classmates. “Students expectations about the integrity of their classmates can determine whether the college culture reinforces honesty.’ (Source C). When everyone is able to trust the people beside them in a classroom, cheating will take a decline, because the individual will want to do their own work if they know that the people beside them are also doing their own work. Colleges must also have a very “well-publicized honor code” (Source C). Because “if the population behaves like honest” types than it will increase the impression that everyone is honest and make being caught for cheating even worse. (Source C). Showing just how much people will conform to the atmosphere they’re in and how if honesty becomes the norm of an environment it will become what people conform to. Making their risks of being caught a cheater even higher because of the people they will be surrounded …show more content…
“Out of 275 responses in a survey, only 65 said the honor code was discussed in class” (Source E). This must change if students are expected to follow an honor code and know of what it can offer them. More informed students will make following the honor code more successful in colleges and high schools. In one college “the key to their success seems to be encouraging students involvement in developing community standards on academic dishonesty and ensuring their subsequent acceptance by the larger community.” (Source F). Being accepted into a community is what everyone wants, so if informing students thating follow an honor code will allow them to be accepted into a community, then it will be done more willingly. “Responsibilities they have assumed as members of the campus community, convinces many students, most of whom cheated in high school, to change their behavior.” (Source F). Students need to be given positive perspectives on honor codes to see what they could have by joining in on honor codes. For example, knowing they can trust each other “students and faculty [want] to live in complete trust of one another.” (Source