Students are getting more and more clever in the way they, um, succeed in school. And many of them are trying to find the fastest and easiest way to do so. They cheat.
Cheating is not new nor is it a rare few who resort to it. A Rutgers University study reported that 70% of 18,000 students surveyed said they had "seriously cheated on tests." Many of them when asked which box to check, serious, moderate or light, looked at their friend's sheet to get the right answer.
As many as 60 percent of students say they plagiarized.
The ways students cheat is what is new.
Here are five ways students are using high-tech to get better grades.
1. Email - students swap answers with friends. How hard can it be to pick, choose, rearrange, and rewrite answers to make it look like your own with minimum effort?
2. Graphing calculators - can be preprogrammed with answers.
3. Cell phones - take photo images of exam papers, formulas, graphs and such.
4. Cell phones - call up online dictionaries
5. Cell phones - text message questions and answers to one another
6. iPods - test answers are disguised as/substituted for song titles
7. iPods - videos with answers to test questions in them
If only students would spend as much time studying as they did finding resourceful ways get around studying...
What do you think?
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