Academic dishonesty

matters. People cheat, and some more often than others. When asked about why people cheat, the most common answer is, “It’s easy and the class is hard.” It seems that academic dishonesty is more common among the Millennials due to various ways of cheating, like through technology. An article called, Addressing Academic Dishonesty in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology by Berlin Fang, they spoke about an Oklahoma Christian University where all the students have an electronic device provided to them…

One predictor of academic dishonesty that has been researched is the fraud triangle model (Macgregor & Stuebs, 2012). The fraud triangle includes three characteristics needed for cheating to occur which are incentive, opportunity, and rationalization. In the study, the researchers examined the relationship between the fraud triangle model and how this could lead to cheating behaviors. The first proposed component is an incentive. If an incentive is present, students are more likely to want to…

Academic honesty is the use of ones owns thoughts and materials in a piece or writing, test taking, or other educational activities. Academic Integrity is often put to trial with student athletes. However, because of a history of problems associated with college sports, campuses had to develop policies and consequences for a failure to abide to academic honesty. “Since 1990, the Division I Committee on Infractions has found violations of this bylaw in 23 major infractions cases” (McCaw 2012).…

Academic Dishonesty In technically terms I have been academically dishonest on numerous occasions. Most of these being in high school. These instances have been mostly within my group of friends who are pressured by our parents to do as best we can in school. Our group had different specialties in which people would say we were complete “nerds” in. Since we were in similar classes and had our different specialties we would use each other as resources while doing assignments. Sometimes it was…

In Stephanie Ericson’s “The Ways We Lie,” Ericson discusses a contemporary issue of how we as humans justify lying to big institutions for our self-benefit. An ever-growing branch of this form of lying includes academic dishonesty. In today’s society, schools praise GPA and grades rather than student progress, prompting students to feel the external pressure of meeting these expectations. Rather than appraising students based on growth, schools admire the top students, unknowingly encouraging…

In the world today it seems to be almost common knowledge that extracurricular activities help rather than hinder the growth and development of adolescents as they mature into adulthood. Being involved in sports, clubs, and having part-time jobs can help people to become better at things like time management and has been proven to be a contributing factor to higher grades in school and being better leaders in society. However, many do not consider that extracurricular activities and being…

“Academic degrees are a lifetime honor. Once you have one, no one can take that away from you.” That’s what my father and several academic advisors told me as I contemplated seeking my undergraduate university degree several years ago. Yet some of America’s best colleges and universities are putting political correctness ahead of traditional academic policy by stripping the once-popular TV comedian Bill Cosby of his honorary degrees, in response to allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted…

we want to know what drives these students to the point where they can justify academic dishonestly. There are common associations with academic dishonesty students who work part time jobs, students who are only focused on college acceptance, and (at higher levels of education) students who are just simply not prepared. In today’s public school system students are being given the opportunity to justify academic dishonesty because they are overloaded with work, not being prepared Higher Level…

order to cheat in their online courses. Academic dishonesty, in schools, is gradually becoming more common. A study from 2006 mentioned how more than 70% of the scholars had seen a form of plagiarizing which is believable since scholars that cheat more tend to see academic dishonesty occur frequently(Ma et al.; Miller and Young-Jones). Learners use the cheating culture as a way to justify themselves so as to feel less guilty. Although they know academic dishonesty is wrong, students deem it to…

Introduction The lowest standard of ethics a scholar could pursuit is academic dishonesty; this is agreed upon by all intellectuals. Such deception leads to research fabrication and has the possibility to spread false information like the plague. Thankfully, all good science is based on peer review, therefore eliminating most attempts of researchers to further a false career. However, there is a new form of dishonesty that has less to do with the results and more in line with how the results…