These students teach the Honor Code to fifth graders, who, in turn, explain it to younger elementary school students to help establish a student-driven culture of integrity. Students also write a pledge of authenticity on every assignment. And if there is an honor code transgression, the council gathers to discuss possible consequences.
Use metacognition. With my ninth graders, I use a centuries-old resource to discuss moral quandaries: the play Macbeth. I push students to consider the steps they take to get the outcomes they desire. Why do we tend to act in the ways we do? What will we do to get what we want? And how will doing those things change who we are? Bring honesty right into the curriculum.
Teachers can weave a discussion of ethical behavior into curriculum. Ruff and many other teachers have been inspired to teach media literacy to help students understand digital plagiarism and navigate the widespread availability of secondary sources online, using guidance from organizations like Common Sense Media.
There are complicated psychological dynamics at play when students cheat, according to experts and researchers. So why do students cheat—and how do we stop them? According to a survey of 70, students across the United States, 95 percent of students admitted to cheating in some capacity.
I was certain that our love would be forever, so when I walked in on him making out with some dude from work who also had a boyfriend, so what gives, man?
We've Got Answers. You can guess how that worked out by my searches during the next few months. A cheater or a dictator with the murder of thousands on his conscience? In my pain, I had decided that the man who cheated on me was evil, dark-hearted, a pox upon all the houses not just those found in Verona.
Turns out my black and white view of infidelity wasn't the most honest way to look at it, sex therapist Vanessa Marin tells me. There are plenty of really great, wonderful people who cheat as well. People do bad things.
I felt really trapped. When another man approached her, Gloria acted on her attraction. This kind of story is common—and often the easiest to swallow for people who renounce adultery of any kind. But Marin says that cheating is almost never this cut-and-dry. To insist on valuing learning over grades is offensively disingenuous and hypocritical. Students have no input regarding how or what they learn, and they are alienated from the work they do at school.
Except for a few rare assignments, students are not inspired by their work, and any personal attachment they could have is undermined by the fact that they must compromise their efforts to meet the demands and expectations of the person who grades their work.
It's important to bear in mind that students prepare for tests with the intention that they will retain the material just long enough to take the test and then forget most of what they learned soon afterwards.
This completely undermines the purpose and value of testing. Advocates of testing who denigrate cheating conveniently fail to acknowledge this. Testing demands that students view knowledge as a disposable commodity that is only relevant when it is tested. This contributes to the process of devaluing education. The benefits of cheating are obvious — improved grades in an environment where failure is not an opportunity for learning, but rather a badge of shame.
When students do poorly on a test, there is no reason for students to review their responses because they will likely never be tested on the same thing ever again. The test itself is largely arbitrary and often not meaningful. Organizations such as FairTest are devoted to sharing research that exposes the problems of bad testing practices. The main arguments against cheating in school are that it is unethical, promotes bad habits, and impacts self-esteem through the attainment of an unearned reward.
None of these concerns are even remotely valid because none consider the environment. Children are routinely rounded up and forcibly placed in an institution where they are subjected to a hierarchy that places them at the bottom.
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