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Cheating in education has become increasingly pervasive at all levels, according to survey research. One major cause is increasing anxiety among students about their future job prospects and financial security in a winner-take-all society. Other causes include lax oversight by faculty and the ease of cheating via the Internet.

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Trends in Cheating

The SATs are one of the most stressful things that high school students face. It's no surprise that many teenagers have turned to cheating in order to get ever closer to that elusive 1600 (changing to 2400 in 2005). Find out how students are cheating -- it's not just crib sheets anymore.

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Technology is quickly becoming a cheater's best friend, and educators are having a hard time keeping up. Read on to discover just how crafty students are getting in order to pass tests.

	New calculators force NCEES to tighten security policy
	Test messages and camera phones are being used to cheat in the classroom

Research Findings

	Amid wave of cheating, faculty push for "academic integrity"
	Summary of a decade of survey research by the Center for Academic Integrity finds student cheating is pervasive.
	Cheating by high school students has increased according to 2002 survey of American youth.
	Majority of top high school students admit to cheating.
	Survey: Many students say cheating is okay.
	Poll: Most students think those who cheat are not punished.
	Internet Plagiarism on the rise, according to 2003 study by Donald McCabe.
	Click here for comprehensive bibliography of academic studies of student cheating.

News and Issues

Why is it so hard to prevent and punish cheating?

	Students often cheat their punishment
	How Dartmouth failed to punish 78 students in a mass cheating episode

Not just cheating students: Universities struggle with range of ethics problems.

"Dishonesty in the Academy." Article by Robert Hauptman. (2002)

Cheating by school teachers is on the upswing, partly as a result of high stakes testing and other new pressures on teachers.

	Teacher cheating in New York City schools
	Why teachers cheat to improve student scores
	Harvard Study: Pressures of high-stakes testing encourages teacher cheating
	Study examines prevalence of teacher cheating
	Records show numerous cases of teacher cheating in New York state
	Teacher talks of helping third-graders cheat
	Six teachers caught in 2002 standardized test cheating scandal in Chicago
	PA administrator files suit over teacher cheating in schools

Universities

Columbia

Two Columbia undergrads arrested in GRE cheating scam

Harvard

	Student: Cheating common at Harvard.
	Harvard Independent calls for more stringent honor code at Harvard

Princeton

	Scandal: Princeton admission officials break into Yale admissions network
	What's wrong with Princeton's honor code
	Other university students laugh at Princeton's honor code

Stanford

	Cheating on the rise at Stanford
	Analysis: cheating trends at Stanford over past 40 years
	Explaining more cheating at Stanford

University of Virginia

	Mass cheating scandal shakes University of Virginia
	How one professor busted 122 students at UVA
	Insanity defense used to get cheaters off the hook

Yale

	Is cheating a serious problem at Yale?
	Student: Cheating rampant at Yale
	Poll: Yalies wouldn't cheat
	The 1995 cheating scandal at Yale Divinity

Click here to tell us about cheating at your university or college.

High Schools

Students in America's prep schools are feeling the pressure of competition, and are competing at all costs to get ahead. How far are these students willing to go to get into the Ivy League?

	Scandal rocks the Landon School
	Would you cheat for the perfect score?
	SAT perfectionism can tempt students to cheat their way to 1600
	A growing dilemma: pop culture, parental and peer pressure blamed

Solutions

Honor codes and an institutional commitment to integrity reduce student cheating.

Findings from a 2002 study on impact of honor code.

A new website that allows teachers to cross-check their students' papers with content on the Internet as well as papers from other students around the nation.

How some teachers are fighting plagiarism