I've been reading about this scandal for a week or two now, but just came across this video . For those who are unaware, 200+ students in a class of 500 (a capstone business class) were found to have cheated on a midterm exam. The professor knows his stats and analysis and was able to identify the students who cheated based on their test scores and other factors. He offered them the option of turning themselves in, taking an ethics course, and retaking the test... or not turning themselves in and being identified by the school and likely kicked out entirely. Over 200 students turned themselves in. It's sad but not the least bit surprising in business schools. The cheating problem is simply out of control and it seems that a lot of students seem to think there's nothing wrong with cheating on exams.
In my college, you can pay the invigilator to let you cheat in the exams. Nobody does anything about it. In fact, chances are that if you take the matter to the principal, you will be kicked out of the college! So yeah, you have to cheat in the examinations.
Um, no you don't. Nothing makes you cheat. No one is holding a gun up to your head saying "CHEAT!" Cheating is only for lazy people. Or for people who just plain forgot about the assignment. I don't see anything wrong with cheating on homework, as long as you make an effort to go back and try to understand what someone else did. But if you just take it and do nothing then that's not okay. And I don't think you should ever cheat on a test. The point of a test is to test you. If you cheat, that because pointless.
If this were in the US, and really is as you said, I'd report the school to the accrediting authority, because the invigilator AND the principal should be fired. If it's in another country where everything is corrupt well... I guess there isn't much you can do about it. But I agree with Steven. There's *never* a justification to cheat, if you give a shit about your own integrity.
Umm did anyone else see the fact fragmatrick was being sarcastic? Or am I the only one who took it as sarcastic?
I didn't take it that way, and having just read a book on the epidemic of cheating and lack of integrity in US society (not just in schools but almost everywhere), I took what he said at face value because apparently stuff like that happens as a matter of routine in a lot of places, though usually not quite that blatantly.
If I'm not mistaken, Fragomatic is not from America? I could also be horribly wrong, but that was the impression I had attained before.
THANK YOU! I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!:icon_wink :eusa_danc I have exams approaching and my friends are busy, micro printing the entire fucking syllabus ...micro printing-reducing the size of a page to one tenths of the original so they become easy to carry in the examination hall ! So, when I read this article here, I thought I would let out my feelings! But, I don' get into serious discussions. I have enough seriousness around me as it is...! I don't look forward to debating here.. Simply because I CAN KICK ANYBODY'S ASS! (I was being sarcastic, thank you..REVAN for noticing it again!)
If you read the article, the professor did some very sophisticated statistical analysis looking at answer patterns and such and was able to determine exactly who cheated based on how the questions were answered, overall scores, etc. So no, I don't think everyone cheated. At least, one can hope.