Academic Dishonesty

Academic Dishonesty

Most people believe that people will cheat just because they are a dishonest person. Although, scientists have done studies that have shown that most people will cheat under the right situation. In James Lang's article "How College Classes Encourage Cheating," Lang states, that 75 percent of students have at least cheated once while attending college (1). Academic dishonesty is a growing problem in college and there are many possible ways to fix it. My solutions are improving plagiarism detection software and using it more often and increasing students' knowledge on honor code.

Grand View Policy on Academic Dishonesty Grand View University students are asked to sign a code of integrity before the academic school year. The code of integrity is an agreement between the student and the university to follow rules and promote academic honesty to make Grand View a better place to be. The university then defines academic dishonesty as a misrepresentation of personal efforts and honest work. This includes plagiarism, cheating, fabrication and facilitation of dishonesty (65–66). For the first occurrence the student is under the discretion of the professor. A second offense means that the student will be removed and failed from the course and they will also be put on academic probation. After the third incident, the student will be suspended from the university and the incident will be recorded on the transcript. Another offense will most likely be expulsion from the university (67).

Solutions for Academic Dishonesty The first solution to help reduce academic dishonesty is to implement honor codes and frequently revise them. In the journal Academe, by Donald McCabe and Linda Klebe Trevino recognize the increase of academic dishonesty. McCabe and Trevino surveyed 2,200 students at 21 different universities. Nine of the universities did not have an honor code while the others either had a tradition, hybrid, or a modified code. Of the universities who had modified codes, 3 of them were large public universities. McCabe and Trevino thought cheating would be more frequent at these institutions because of their size. McCabe and Trevino found that was not the case. Of the universities that were surveyed one–third of the

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