...times the way out of these instances can be found by taking the "easy way." Would the "easy way" necessarily be the "right" way? Personally, I believe that there are no times when cheating is right. Cheating has consequences, and creates an internal struggle in the person. As stated in the above prompt, cheating can be found in many facets of the world we are living in. It is not rare to hear about famous athletes using supplements, or "enhancers" to achieve or win awards. These are people we look up to. Many of us can be tempted to follow their example. We have witnessed numerous times how cheating has backfired on successful athletes and ruined their careers. We have the case of Lance Armstrong, who after being at the top of his career, finally admitted to blood doping and using steroids. Not only did these actions negatively affect his body, they also ruined his reputation. We all have people who follow our example, whether it is siblings, children, or other young people. This younger generation learns visually, and they will one day be the future leaders of their generation. Do we really want future world leaders who are corrupt? Maybe we justify our cheating by saying it is a one-time thing, or that what no one knows won't hurt him or her, however nothing is without consequence. Cheating also causes an internal struggle in the person performing said action. Feelings of guilt can overcome a person when they realize that their action can't be reversed. This can be...
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...Cheating does not Help Students Learn Better In the modern society, almost every student occasionally cheats during tests or exams. It is found more beneficial to cheat rather than study for upcoming examinations. Willfried Decoo argues that 70% of high school students in the United States have at least cheated once in their high school career. However people are not aware of the harmful side effects that cheating brings along such as its addiction, losing self-belief, and the trouble it can cause. Cheating does not help students learn better in their education, but it only harms them. Cheating can be very addicting. It can make an individual think that cheating is the best and only way of getting a high grade in an exam or a test. It is commonly known that students will perform every possible way to stay floating in academic classes. For this reason, it is very likely for students to cheat in classes. The mind of an individual only starts to conclude that the only way of getting a high grade is to cheat. This is where the second topic links in and people feel like they cannot achieve a good grade without cheating. Self-belief is a very important characteristic. Cheating however decreases that characteristic from an individual. After the addiction process is complete, people tend to lose confidence in studying. It is commonly thought that without cheating an individual wont be able to get a high grade. This occurs because people lose self-belief. Dependency occurs within...
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...When you consume steroids you are cheating on your opponents. You are pretending to be someone you are not. It is cheating on your opponent because when you use steroids it enhances your performance. This is not fair because you are going to be better than you actually are. By using steroids you are making the game unfair, you have more abilities and advantages than your opponent. You are also cheating on your own teammates by consuming steroids. You are pretending to be someone you are not. People think less of your team. After one person from a team consumes steroids, the whole team will be affected. People will judge the team and think they are all cheaters. Likewise, you are cheating on yourself. You are pretending to be someone you are not. People who use steroids damage their integrity. They will not be trusted again. You are not accepting yourself because you are taking something to change your appearance. Moreover, the use of steroids makes you a...
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...Cheating—regardless of the form—is not merely a tool for success. It is not a new concept in today’s society, nor is it escalating into something uncontrollable by institutions. Cheating has been present throughout history, and, in fact, cheating is much easier to detect than it was many years ago due to electronic analysis that confirms whether or not an article, research paper, thesis, or medical breakthrough is another individual’s original work. In the blog Save Higher Education: Toss the Cheaters, Professor Doom takes an apposing stance in an attempt to make individuals “knowledgable” about the issue, cheating, in institutes of higher learning. He states that institutions allow cheating simply because they rely on funding, which requires impressive teacher evaluations and high graduation rates. Doom also expresses his belief that college courses offered on the internet will soon cause traditional institutes to be a thing of the past. Where is Doom’s factual evidence...
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...chapter presents the summary of the findings, so conclusions drawn form the findings and the corresponding recommendations. This study was taken with the general objective of identifying the major factors that affect the mastery skills of the fourth year, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy students in Jose Rizal University for the School Year, 2011-2012. Specifically, this study sought to answer the following questions: 1. How does cheating affect the mastery skills of the senior students? 2. Why do personal problems affect the mastery skills of the senior students? 3. What are the implications of the absence of comprehensive examination in the training of the students for the different accounting subjects? 4. Why does the University’s BSA Program System affect the learning habits of their students? 5. Why does the natural complexity of the accounting course, combined with poor study habits, pose a problem towards the mastery of the students? Summary of Findings: 1. Effect of Cheating on the mastery skills of the College students: 2.1. Nine out of ten college students admit to copying someone else's homework; two-thirds say they have cheated on exams 2.2. 75%-98% percent of college students surveyed each year admit to cheating at some time in their academic careers 2.3. The college students who are most likely to cheat are business majors 2. Effect of Personal problems to the mastery skills of the College students: ...
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...A Battle Against Cheating When students were at middle school, they were told that the only way to gain success was through hard working. As a student, you should work hard to get good a grade. As an employee, you should work hard to get a promotion. This is a classic American dream: as long as you work hard, you can always achieve your dream no matter what backgrounds you come from. However, reality seems to be disappointed. Working hard is not the only way to get ahead any more. Those who work much harder seem to be less successful than those who work less hard but know how to play tricks. Cheating is a secret weapon that could make you move forward. It is becoming more common, tempting and covert than it was fifty years ago. It is the time to hold our remaining virtues to fight against unethical behaviors. We should identify factors that have led to the phenomenon of cheating and then seek effective ways to conquer it. In their book Final Accounting, Toffler and Reingold (2003) talked about how the world once greatest accounting firm Arthur Andersen cheated together with its clients to mislead investors and eventually collapsed after being disclosed many astounded accounting scandals of the firm. Toffler and Reingold (2003) pointed out that people tend to blame such cheating scandals to a few bad individuals. Whereas, it is the culture that should take the responsibility. It is the corrupting culture that makes cheating an attractive way to get what you want (p.204)...
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...you choose can make or break your career. In the first article, Aaron and Roche, (2013) highlight several levels of academic dishonesty being displayed and the repercussions that followed as a result. Together Aaron and Roche, try to identify where academic dishonesty can begin and how society plays a major role in its flourish. From an early age, we are taught to be competitive and to always strive to be the best at what we do, at least that’s what most parents expect from their children. There is an enormous amount of pressure placed on children in the elementary and high school grades to achieve high scores on standardized test. Unfortunately, this type of pressure if continued can lead to cheating on the collegiate level (Schellenbarger, 2013). Academic dishonesty or “cheating”, has become a common standard amongst specialized high schoolers and prep school students. In one scenario, involving a specialized school in New York, high school students devised an organized plan to cheat on a Regents exam. Of course the students involved were caught and reprimanded, however this incident opened the door to the pointing of fingers, how and why could something like this happen? What would make students go to such lengths to cheat? The idea of teachers turning a blind eye or covering for students already accepted into Ivy League universities was presented. This notion although difficult to accept as a fellow teacher, is quite true and even more...
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...Union College Sta. Cruz, Laguna Experimental Psychology “Cheating and its effects on the Moral Sensibility” Of Criminology and Education Students In Union College Submitted by: Submitted to: Carable, Cris Madel Mrs. Bituin Gracia Z. Almonte Blanca, Jan Marinie Padua, Carla May Statements of the Problem: This study aimed to compare the effects of cheating on the moral sensibility of criminology and education students in Union College. Introduction: Moral Sensibility as define refers to our response towards what is right or wrong. Because man is believed—by nature is good but morally weak, he endures all the temptations through his life. Cheating is considered as one of those as one of those which lower the moral sensibility of students, it is also a serious problem that has negative educational, social, and psychological effects. Educationally, cheating is contrary to the spirit if higher education, especially in developing and promoting moral values and attitudes. Socially, cheating is unacceptable behavior to get something with no right. Cheating is also not only affects students who cheated but also other students as it forces them to live in an unfair system. The good thing is that by learning the consequences of this action, students learn to value fairness and honesty even more. Psychologically, cheating may cause an instability in a student’s values, potentially resulting in serious psychological problems, such as feelings of being guilty and with shame but...
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...Disease What’s contagious, but will never make you sick? What wildfire is so great that it will never be extinguished? It isn’t a disease or natural disaster, but at the same time, it is a disease and is becoming a natural disaster to our country's youth: cheating. Although the phrase “you’re a cheater” has a negative connotation to it, is it really wrong anymore? Some, like Wired journalist, Cevin Soling, say yes while others, like Professor say no, however, the truth can’t be brushed under the rug for much longer. I believe cheating is the largest infection of my generation and will have a horrible effect on the future generations to come. Every academic institution in America has very strict policy against cheating. Last year alone, 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from U.S. universities for poor academic performance and/or cheating (Qi). Robert...
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...How Children Are Impacted By Marital Infidelity Abstract This research will show how a parent’s infidelity can impact their children’s perspective of marriage, love and intimate relationships. The study was conducted in April 2014 and explored the impact of a parent’s infidelity on adults through a review of literature and critical analysis of the information in an ethnographic, qualitative manner. Table of Contents TITLE …………………………………………………………………..…1 ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………….….…..2 Introduction ……………………………………….………………………4 Research on infidelity …...………………………………………..……….5 Social media as a source to increase cheating………………….………….6 Adult children of parental infidelity…………………………………….....6 Results of children with cheating parents …………………………………7 Assumptions and Limitations ………………………………………….…..9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………11 Work cited …………………………………………………………………12 Infidelity A business owner has been married to his wife for only 25 years. This couple has 3 children. The couple appears to be happily married, and they have a nice home. A late Friday night after he leaves his company he decides to go to a bar with his cousin and leaves the wife to take care of his and his cousins kids. At the bar the man and his cousin go to the bar to order a beverage. Not after ordering his drink, a woman goes up to him. She asks the men if she can join them. The three of them seem to enjoy...
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...Have you ever heard of performance enhancing drugs?Well right now there’s an argument about whether they should be allowed in professional sports.The main issue is if they should be allowed in sports. And right now most sports organizations are involved such as NBA, NFA, even Nascar. This issue is important because right now people are using peds in drugs, and people are concerned if its allowed. I personally believe that they shouldn’t be allowed in professional sports. For example its unfair. Using peds is unfair because it gives users an unfair advantage over those who don’t use peds. Peds are cheating because the point of them is to give users an advantage over the citizens that don’t dope. “The use of performance enhancers is cheating...
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...Diverse Nature of Psychology Jessica Evans PSY/490 9-6-2011 DIVERSE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY Psychology covers many different topics and is very divers because we as humans are very divers. Psychology looks at the differences in people to find a way to better understand how people think and act. Because of this psychology looks at people’s behavior and what motivates us. Motivation can also affect people’s behavior. There are many types of motivation and behavior. Psychology looks at the reasons behind these. Our emotions and the motivations that cause our emotions play a big role in our behavior and psychology. Our emotions are tied to everything we do. They shape our behavior into how we act and how we feel. Some people wear their emotions on their sleeves. Others keep it bottled up. The things that motivates us can also affect our emotions. We use motivation for a lot of things. We use motivation at our jobs to get our employees to work harder or be more efficient. Motivation is also used to push ourselves to do something like too loose weight or to complete a goal that we have. Motivation is used when someone is addicted to drugs and they want to stop. They use motivation as a way to quit. They may use family as a motivator to quit the drugs. The approach to motivation is different for everyone because everyone is different and we all like different things. An employer may take the approach to motivate their employees by offering an incentive to sell...
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...such a distinguished nation. Americans in their desire for more may have compromise their ethics. Are people willing to get ahead at any cost? Most people in American society live busy, hectic lives and this affects all facets of life. In the academic environment, students face grave pressure from others as well as internally to perform well (McCabe 2001). Plagiarism is one aspect of ethics in academia where students may find themselves compromising. In a study by Bill Bowers of “over 5,000 students on 99 different campuses, 75% of the respondents had engaged in one or more incidents of academic dishonesty (McCabe, 2001, pg. 220). Although this study is a frightening and awakening find, as Carter, Bishop, and Kravits (2007) stated, “Plagiarism usually starts accidentally during research” (Chap. 8, wk.2). Time restraints, improper planning or just misinformation can all lead to plagiarism. Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism is still unethical and illegal. In America’s demanding and competitive society, ethics may have taken a back seat all in the name of progress. Technology has allowed people to enjoy a more advanced, more efficient quality of life, though this also may contribute to the ease with which students are “dishonest.” Plagiarism will certainly affect more than just students education. With the population growing in our nation, so does the number of students attending the public and private universities that this nation has to offer. A major issue with...
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...policy I have followed through my high school and first years in college. Each student collaborates with obtaining the data, but it’s the interpretation of it that varies. There was an incident at Harvard University that was discussed in class about the 125 graduate seniors who were made to take a leave of absence or withdraw for collaborating on a take home test. An investigation is being conducted for these students and it was brought up in class about whether or not it was fair to rescind all students’ diplomas who took this General Education class. A student in class stated that it was not fair because you can’t really prove who exactly cheated and who didn’t. They also stated that because this class was a GE class it doesn’t really affect any jobs so no “real” harm was done. When the example of a doctoral thesis being plagiarized was brought up, it was generally agreed upon that...
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...1. At our school site, cheating and academic integrity violations have become a real problem. Currently, it is unclear what exactly has led to such an epidemic, however, we come together today at this town hall meeting in order to discuss and debate the topic, so that we may further understand and clarify what leads to such violations. Further, I hope that these discussions may lead to realizations as to what must be done in order to prevent further instances of cheating and academic dishonesty. Finally, I would hope that each stakeholder group will better understand one another and gain knowledge of academic integrity, its definitions and regulations. Questions for each of the stakeholder groups: Graduate Schools Group: 1. Would knowledge of a student violating their college’s academic integrity regulations affect their chances of attending a (your) graduate school? 2. If so, is there any action that a student can take in order to change your view of them or your decision concerning their acceptance? Student Group: 1. What do you feel the professors, faculty and university can do to better and further deter students from cheating? 2. What do you, as students, believe would be a fair punishment for academic integrity violations? Parent Group: 1. Parents, do you feel that you were properly informed about the expectations concerning and the consequences surrounding a student violating the academic integrity rules? 2. What do you believe you...
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