Student's Perceptions of Cheating
Alex Beauvais
place on them, by their parents and teachers, regarding their future.
The pain and stress will sometimes urge the students to cheat on major
assignments, tests, and final exams. Since this act is performed on a
regular basis by most students, they believe that the penalties for
cheating should not only be placed on the students and their parents.
It is up to schools to convince the students that cheating is morally
wrong and that no student attemps it. The teacher can have a direct
interaction with his or her students and the can try to ease off the
pressure of university by giving tthem hope and knowledge regarding
their future. Teachers can also try to make studying fun. A student
should not be forced to read a book that they do not want to read and
should not write a paper if they don't feel passionate about the
subject. If the student does not like the subject that their essay is
about, than in some cases it causes them to go onto the Intenet and
plagarize. Schools should tell their teachers to focus more on the
student's individual needs in order to foreshadow the student's progress
and abilities through out the semester. It is up to the teacher to show
the student that learning can be fun and that it is better to read a
book than to be in a gang. The onus is on the schools, not the student.
James McMartin
Alex Beauvais <apsb...@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
Alex: I strongly disagree with your assertions regarding who has the
responsibility in this case. University students are adults, and should
be, _must_ be treated as such. Further, they are _paying_ for this
information and education, thus cheating (in any form) is only a waste
of their time and money. Finally, teachers are paid to teach, not to
police the internet for fraud. Why do you ask them to take on additional
tasks and ask the student to do less?
THank you,
James
Jeff Murdoch
Alex Beauvais <apsb...@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
Parents put an incredible amount of pressure on their children to do
well. This is something you would expect from a parent because they
want nothing more than their children to succeed. But when they leave
the house and get into the classroom the teachers are doing just as much
pressuring as the parents. The students need to have some positive
thoughts going through their heads not always the negatives which
usually take over the positives anyways. But on a different note a lot
of pressure may benefit some people. As said above it is important for
teachers to keep school fun and therefore limit drop outs and things
like that. All in all I am agreeing with this article.
Miranda Fisher
Alex Beauvais <apsb...@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
i agree with alot of the things you are saying. ALOT of students do
plagarize and i have also heard that with this group of first year
students it is a bigger problem then usual. Although it is the
responsibility of the student to cite things properly, i hate writing
papers about things that do not interest me. I believe that the school
ciriculum should change just as society has.