Academic Honesty in Society

Academic Honesty in Society

Introduction

The first article I chose came from the Mid-Western Educational Researcher, titled "Cheating Perceptions and Prevalence Across Academic Settings." Kelly Honz, a high school teacher; and Kenneth A. Kiewra and Ya-Shu Yang, both university professors, wrote and published it April 1, 2010. The peer-reviewed article was found on EBSCOhost with the keywords "academic honesty." The article discussed the results of the Academic Honesty Survey of high school students, which determined that the students all shared similar traditional perceptions of what constituted as cheating and what setting a student had cheated or were tempted to cheat in most.

While this article had little to no bearing on this paper on hand, it gave some interesting information-- what a student would most likely cheat at. Students were more likely to cheat on an exam or test more than a homework assignment or even a long-term project or typed paper. Logically, I would assume a student would be more likely to cheat on something that would cost them a huge part of their grade if he or she were to do poorly on it. However, I do not know if this applies to college students, but the article hints that most students maintain the same way of thinking even through college.

Discussion

The article described the results of a survey that tallied the frequency and environment students committed academic dishonesty, and the circumstances in which students believed other students were likely to participate in academic dishonesty. The results suggested that students taking classes online were no more likely to cheat than those who went to classes on campus. One of the problems facing academics today is that on average one-third of grade-A students have cheated at least once. However, teachers and faculty can have a positive effect on a student and influence them to turn in honest work. Cheating is often viewed a shortcut, so even high-scoring students may be tempted to cheat if pressed for time. The solution is to simply manage your available time better.

This makes it clear that the basic idea is to open and truly democratic society, where there is mutual respect, fairness and equality, where the soul of an open society - as the heart in our body, without which we cannot exist. And society cannot exist without academic honesty, driving his freedom and is the foundation of democracy. With the help of academic honesty, I think, be able to reach any free society must heights and make the impossible possible, "change the world around us, the better".

Indeed, one can hardly believe that the spiritual and material goods can be purchased by using the mutual deception and trickery. Hardly anyone could agree with it, because it is clear that the prosperity and the triumph of any community of people can only be achieved through mutual consent, respect and freedom of action. This is one of the tenets of academic honesty. "The principle of academic integrity must take center stage in the value system of ...