Posted on 02/02/2022 12:13:09 PM PST by karpov
Students can survive by cheating unless their professors enforce academic integrity standards. We presume such enforcement exists, but my personal experience suggests otherwise. Let’s be honest: professors face unpleasant consequences if they resist cheating, but no consequences if they look the other way. Professors respond to their incentive structure like other living beings.
I was naive to the culture of cheating when I was a student, so I was naive as a professor. My odyssey into the cheating world began when a student complained after an exam. She’d witnessed many infractions while I just sat there reading a book—everything from whispering to passing notes to passing a whole scantron test. I was tempted to dismiss her the way “tattlers” are often dismissed on the playground, but then she said the words I cannot forget: “It’s unfair to students who study.”
So I asked her for details, and she made it clear that this was not an isolated incident. From then on, I could not collect my salary in good conscience unless I did what I could to run a classroom with integrity.
It felt very awkward at first. I hated staring at the class during tests. Such surveillance seemed to violate campus norms, and I didn’t know what I’d do if I saw a lapse in integrity. I would rather be reading a book, but that wouldn’t be fair to students who study.
I looked to colleagues for support, but I got just the opposite. The professors I asked were quick to insist that preventing cheating is not their job. “I’m not a policeman,” they’d say. “It’s up to them if they want to learn.” They’d say this in almost the same words, which I found eerie.
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The Clintons? The Bidens? Practically every Congresscritter?
For many, Cheating is only a problem when you get caught.
Behavior that gets rewarded, gets repeated. Ethics is doing the right thing when no one else is watching.
Rare.
It’s not that unfair to those who study. When they get their first job, they will know a lot and the cheaters will not. This will soon become apparent to their employer.
... They can even become “president” of the US.
Beat me to it.
Plagarizing Joe is now President.
But he has already been labelled the worst president in history and will likely hold that title until well after he has left office.
I pointed it out to the professor and he agreed that it was indeed wrong and that I had chosen the correct answer. The professor credited my exam the points.
My guess is that someone or someones had the previous semester's exams and the professor hadn't update the exams. The cheaters simply copied the exam along with the error.
>It’s not that unfair to those who study. When they get their first job, they will know a lot and the cheaters will not. This will soon become apparent to their employer.
In which case it’s doubly unfair to the honest student:
- They’re shunted aside from a good employment opportunity by the dishonest student who had equal paper credentials; and
- When employers find that students from this university are underprepared, the value of the honest student’s degree is reduced along with the rest.
In the larger scale, this is part of why employers have been so successful turning to foreign labor; sure, they lie on resumes too but if that’s what you’re getting from an American anyway, plus whining, entitlement, SJWism, and more pay, why not cheap out?
Cheaters never prosper? Has she never heard of the Clintons, the Bidens, the Democrats???
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