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Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels

Posted by Soulskill on from the bad-at-learning-means-bad-at-learning-how-to-cheat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over a third of undergraduate students admitted to some form of cheating at one of America's top research universities, according to a survey published November in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics (abstract). The researchers expected to find more cheating among the top-performing group — and at the minimum at least some students with excellent grades cheated. Not so. As it turned out, the overall cheating rate was similar to that found in other studies, but the types of cheating and stated reasons for cheating were all over the map. Researchers uncovered one trend among the cheaters: the perception that teaching assistants either ignored or didn't care about cheating."

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  1. Was there really a survey? by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    They did a study of cheating, eh? With a survey? How do we know they didn't just fake the data?

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  2. Re:You are doing it wrong by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've catched students cheating

    Was it an English exam?

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  3. I cheated ... by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... when I took the state PE license engineering fundamentals test. It was 8 hours, open book, bring your own calculator. This was back when calculators had battery sucking LED displays and you'd be lucky to get 8 hours out of them. So when they opened the doors to the test room, it was a mad scramble to grab a seat near a plug.

    I cheated. I brought a slide rule.

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