Topic > Understanding the Motivations Behind Student Cheating
According to a survey by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, "allowing students to bring smartphones to a testing site has created an easy outlet for students to cheat (Perez- Punishment).Students today cheat by looking up the answers and writing them down so as not to make it look like they are cheating. The antics used are: writing facts and answers on appendices or on the inside of water bottle wrappers, or even writing. answers on the desk. Students may try to cheat on a test to pass, but in some cases end up failing and failing the class. Studies have also found that students cheat by plagiarizing documents or not citing sources used (Perez-Pena) . When students are overwhelmed by tests, the desire to cheat arises
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