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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Academic Dishonesty Triples Likelihood of Course Failure - Helena Zhu, the Epoch Times
In the electronic age, cheating is easier than anything else. Taking a quick peek at a neighbor’s test paper without getting caught may seem like a harmless attempt to achieve a higher mark, yet new research has shown that prevalent academic dishonesty contributes greatly to course failure, especially nowadays. The online quizzes and online learning courses of today’s colleges are perfect breeding grounds for cheating, according to a study published online in Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research (PRST-PER) by researchers from the University of Kansas (KU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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