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In eight pages this paper examines the academic dishonesty in an overview that includes causes, effects, impact on higher education, direct correlation with workplace behaviors, and makes recommendations as to how higher education can tackle this growing problem. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Competition is stiff, and the pressures of acceptance and maintaining a certain grade point average have been known to push some students into taking drastic measures to keep from flunking
out of school. Schmelkin, Gilbert, Spencer, Pincus, & Silva (2008) observed in their article, A Multidimensional scaling of college students perceptions of academic dishonesty, "Academic integrity is one of
the fundamental values of higher education," and the number of students who commit acts of academic dishonesty is constantly growing (p. 587). In fact, one study has stated that
at the college level, it is "reaching epidemic proportions" (Schmelkin et al., 2008). Why? Before a greater examination of this issue and its effects on higher education and
elsewhere, the term academic dishonesty should be defined. It can refer to anything from copying off another persons test or quiz, stealing an exam, or plagiarizing a report or
term paper. In higher education, it has been reported that more than 50 percent of students have committed some type of cheating or dishonesty during their academic careers in
order to receive a good grade, achieve a competitive edge, to complete a difficult task, or because of time constraints (Schmelkin et al., 2008). A 2002 study of nearly 50,000
undergraduate students in various U.S. colleges and universities conducted by Professor Donald McCabe, president and founder of the Center for Academic Integrity, revealed that a quarter of the students surveyed
admitted to "serious cheating" on a recent examination (Burke, Polimeni, & Slavin, 2007, p. 58). Fifty percent of the students surveyed confessed to cheating at least once on writing
assignments, and more disturbingly, of the 10,000 faculty members who were interviewed, nearly half (44 percent) admitted being aware of student cheating but failed to report such practices to university
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