Is Academic Cheating out of Control??????
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Academic cheating is defined as representing someone else’s work as your own. It can take many forms, including;
1.Sharing another’s work,
2.Purchasing a term paper or test questions in advance,
3.Paying another to do the work for you.
Academic cheating
Plagiarism Deception Cheating Bribery Sabotage Professional misconduct Impersonation
Types of academic cheating
The adoption or reproduction of original creations of another author without due acknowledgment
Plagiarism
Providing false information to an instructor concerning a formal academic exercise—e.g., giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted work.
Deception
Any attempt to give or obtain assistance in a formal academic exercise (like an examination) without due acknowledgment.
Cheating
Acting to prevent others from completing their work. This includes cutting pages out of library books or willfully disrupting the experiments of others.
Sabotage
Professional acts that are academically fraudulent equate to academic fraud and grade fraud.
Professional misconduct
Impersonation is a form of cheating whereby a different person than the student assigned an assignment or exam completes it.
Impersonation
Students use different ways for cheating such as:
Fingernail Method Reflection method calculator Method Looking method Pen Cap method Desk Method Alternative Sleeve Method White Ink Method
There are different ways of academic cheating
Students write down information on the fingernails and it is the easy way for looking at their hands.
Fingernail Method
Students use reflective surface folder on exam day. They Scribble the necessary notes on the surface using a sharp piece of metal and look at it from the right angle. The notes show up.
Reflection method
By using scientific calculator students can solve mathematical and other problems.
calculator Method
By simply cracking your neck or something like that, try to take a brief look at the paper of another student
Looking method
Students take short notes on small slip of paper and then roll up and slip the paper into the cap of pen.
Pen Cap method
This is a very easy but complicated method that can be used for almost any test. Students keep their notes in desks.
Desk Method
Some students slide the paper with their notes or answers into their sleeve.
Alternative Sleeve Method
Some students write in a barley visible color e-g. pale yellow or white on their arm.
White Ink Method
vice chancellors of five different universities
50 teachers from different schools, colleges and universities
200 students from different schools, colleges and universities of different provinces.
To find the answer we conducted a survey. In our survey we interviewed:
100% of the heads of institutions said that cheating is not out of control and they have controlled cheating in their respective institutions.
92% of university teachers said that it’s not out of control and 8% of them said that it is impossible to control until and unless students do not correct themselves morally.
The results of our survey are given as follows:
95% of school and college teachers said that cheating is out of control because of our environment. They help students to cheat because of personal relations with the students. And 5% of them said that cheating is not out of control and they do not support any cheating activity
89% students told that cheating is totally out of control. 9% of students said that it is not totally out of control but it is difficult to control and only 2% of students said that cheating is not out of control.
From our survey we conclude that 49.75% 0f the people said that cheating is controllable and 50.25% people said that cheating is totally out of Control.
Students take pressure to succeed in a highly competitive world.
They see cheating in every fact of life: politics, business, home, and school
Students do not do hard work. So to find shortcuts they try to cheat
Reasons:
Students cheat in exams to get higher grades.
Incompletion of course in time.
We consider it as our right.
Some students help their friends and poor students in exam so that they may get passed.
Invigilation staff is not strict
Invigilation staff has personal relations with students.
As for as assignments are concerned teachers do not check the home assignments, so students cheat and copy assignments of one another.
Students sometime get a very short time for assignments. So they copy from one another or from the internet.
Students Awareness
Role of parents
Role of teachers
Role of ulma-e-karams
Education system
Penalties for the cheaters
Recommendations:
ConclusionOur conclusion is “yes cheating is out of control in the present conditions but it can be controlled if the recommendations are implemented otherwise it is totally out of control”.