Don McCabe, a professor at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey conducted a survey of 24,000 students from 70 different high schools. From the survey, he discovered “64 percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58 percent admitted to plagiarism and 95 percent said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism or copying homework” (J Meyer). 95 percent is clearly a lot, and there should be solutions to this problem rather than passing students through school as “cheater, cheater pumpkin-eaters.” Well, there is one solution in which institutions such as the University of Maryland have been cracking down on academic dishonesty. For one, the University of Maryland makes its students sign an honors code before each exam or assignment
Don McCabe, a professor at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey conducted a survey of 24,000 students from 70 different high schools. From the survey, he discovered “64 percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58 percent admitted to plagiarism and 95 percent said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism or copying homework” (J Meyer). 95 percent is clearly a lot, and there should be solutions to this problem rather than passing students through school as “cheater, cheater pumpkin-eaters.” Well, there is one solution in which institutions such as the University of Maryland have been cracking down on academic dishonesty. For one, the University of Maryland makes its students sign an honors code before each exam or assignment