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We can begin by noting that the origins of students' strains and frustrations are irrelevant to the psychological and social reality of the consequences which may result.
The result of having an overly active social life, numerous extracurricular activities, a demanding work schedule, and consequently being unable to devote the necessary study time, is a highly stressful and anxiety producing condition.
Individuals who face such stress have at their means two alternative responses: effectuate changes in the self or the environment Halleck, Cheating represents an adaptation to that stress.
As outlined in this paper and evident from my data, cheating involves a significant investment of one's time, energy, and resources; moreover, it involves a considerable amount of physical action prior to and during the exam. That is, students have to sift through their assigned readings and notes and determine which ones they will place in the cheat sheet; not only that, they must expend great care and cunning while cramming such information into their cheat sheets; next they have to devise where and how they will store their unauthorized notes and how they will retrieve them.
For a standard fifty minute exam, it is possible to spend three to four times that much time thinking, writing, and preparing to cheat.
And during this process they actively—physically and mentally—become engrossed in the task at hand. But most significantly, these actions provide creative outlets for students to transform their impotent and frustrated existential situation into an autonomous mode of being in the planning, preparing, and execution of their deviant plans see Halleck , p.
Students who are caught cheating face embarrassment, shame, and possibly, expulsion. Thus, the risks associated with cheating are very real.
I am almost certain that most if not all instructors have wondered why students spend their time planning, rehearsing, and executing illegitimate plans when they could spend that same time devoting themselves to their studies.
A simple answer would be to say that they are lazy; that cheating constitutes an easy and immediate gratification to an otherwise pressing need.
However, to view cheating as an impulsively conceived and executed form of academic dishonesty, and conceptualizing cheaters as persons lacking "self control" as a result of poor parenting and deficient moral training, overlooks a socio-structural fact Gottfredson and Hirschi, : cheating persists across class, race, gender, and national boundaries Cizek, The cheating act itself is suffused with an unmistakable tinge of existential boundary crossings that are manifested in the corporeal, emotional, and moral experiences of cheaters Katz, Thus, a more troubling—and theoretically titillating—answer would be to explore how cheating presents a set of morally fun challenges that students attempt to work through, that somehow, the possibility of outwitting authority figures provides an unfathomable moral and sensual delight for those who commit such acts Forsyth and Marckese, As I have shown in this paper, students are capable of using highly innovative methods to respond to the perceived frustrations of in-class examinations, tailoring their illicit methods to their personal, social, and situational appurtenances, relying on their wits, peers, and even their sexuality.
It is perhaps the allure of these moral and emotional challenges and gains through illegitimate means that is perhaps even more worthy of further investigation than the allure represented by the more material challenges and gains so often represented as underlying students' motivations to cheat.
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Gender differences in cheating attitudes and classroom cheating behavior: A meta analysis. Wright, R. Burglars on the Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins. Wright, J. They use excuses such as poor internet connection or power outage to create a way to exit the exam and shut down the camera recording so they can quickly look up answers to questions in the exam.
Then they log back in again and continue on with their assessment. Some students outright lie and say they cannot access the software at all but really they are making excuses to avoid being invigilated. Facial markers are identified and monitored; classifying and differentiating innocent behaviors from dishonest behaviors.
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