Academic Dishonesty: Decreasing Cheating in Classrooms

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Academic Dishonesty : Decreasing Cheating in Classrooms

Imagine this scenario . A little after Mr . Smith , your history teacher gives out the class ' weekly history quiz , you see Harry , your classmate sitting in beside you , draw a handkerchief that seems dirty because of some black scribbles on it . He puts his piece of cloth on his lap then covered it with his huge hand . While taking the quiz , you notice Harry removes his hand on his lap then looks at his

handkerchief as if he is reading something . He does this while alertly looking at Mr . Smith . You are seeing it with your own eyes : Harry is cheating

Cheating has been the one of the problems of almost every teacher everywhere for over 30 years (McCabe et al , 2001 . Von Dran , Callahan and Taylor pointed out that cheating is defined in the literature as intentionally unethical behavior . Furthermore , Weaver , Davis , Look Buzzanga , and Neal interpreted academic dishonesty as a violation of an institution 's policy on honesty . Another definition of academic dishonesty is by using unacceptable materials in any academic activity (Lambert et al , 2003

There are several forms of cheating . These are : 1 ) using unauthorized ways to answer a test 2 ) changing other people 's documents 3 plagiarism 4 ) getting a research that has been written by others and submitting it 5 ) breaking the rules 6 ) changing the result of a particular research and 7 ) lying about providing work...