three conditions that encorage cheating

Three Conditions that Encourage Cheating

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Three Conditions that Encourage Cheating

Cheating has increasingly become a common practice among college and high schools students today . Some reasons have been suggested to result in an increase in cheating among students . One of the reasons includes the pressure to succeed in examinations where students do all they can to ensure that they pass their exams : even when it means cheating . The need to keep up with their peers is the second reason why students cheat in exams

. Students feel that in case they failed in their exams , their peers would stay away from them and lose friendship . The third reason why students cheat in exams is due to the increased stress on high-stakes evaluations by the nation which force students to be dishonest in to meet the national standards (Murdock Anderman 2006

Pressure to pass exams , maintenance of peers and high-stake national evaluations are factors related to students ' perception of ability There are other three conditions related to attribution or cognitive theory that encourage cheating . Students ' goal on what they anticipate in exams is the first condition that makes them to become dishonest These goals can be extrinsically or intrinsically focused , ego or performance . The second reason , according to cognitive theory that leads to cheating is the students ' expectations for fulfilling the goals Students are more likely to cheat when they have poor expectations of their capacities to fulfill their goals using their personal efforts The last condition...