Take Highly Competitive Courses? You're More Likely to Cheat
I was shocked to learn that a student in an honors chemistry course cheated on the final exam. When I asked my son about it, he said, "Everybody cheats . It's because of the competition for high grades." While that idea threw me, I was stunned to learn that my honest-to-the-Mom-she-gave-you-too-much-change child knew about it and possibly even contemplated it himself. Now, in addition to this cheating charge following this student to college and on into the workforce, a new study says that high achievers in competitive courses tend to cheat in college. Sure. They learned it in high school, according to newswise.com. The study found that academic misconduct was widespread on test reassessments. Accurate statistics for academic misconduct are difficult to report due to the reliance on self-reporting by students, the website reports. "It has been thought that lower-level students were more likely to cheat because they had more to gain in the form of higher g...