Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990 TAG: 9003072025
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CAMBRIDGE, MASS. LENGTH: Short
Studies indicate about 20 to 30 percent of students cheat. Some copy from classmates' work, others plagiarize term papers or use crib sheets during exams, while others take advantage of computer technology.
"One student who was caught couldn't understand what he'd done that was so wrong," said Arthur Levine, chairman of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management.
"His argument amounted to: `Everyone cheats and as long as I do it well, I won't get caught and will succeed in society.' "
Forty-three percent of 5,000 professors nationwide responded "yes" when the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching asked: "Are today's undergraduates more willing to cheat in order to get good grades?"
"Perhaps the most discouraging side of the survey data is the portrait faculty paint of students, both in the classroom and beyond," the Princeton-based foundation's president, Ernest Boyer, wrote on releasing the study in November.
Getting ahead any way you know how is sometimes perceived as part of playing the game of survival, college administrators said Monday.
"Students read the newspaper and look at television and see plenty of examples of dishonesty in society," said Timothy Brooks, dean of students at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.
by CNB