Cheating is not just opportunity
Given that this MaxKnowledge instruction explains that cheating is more of an opportunity based problem, I will disagree, and say I believe it's a culture issue. If you foster a belief that cheaters will succeed in the workforce, they will cheat in your class.
Hi Gavin,
I had the same experience in college. One of my professors allowed this as well, therefore it was no reason to cheat. The tests were tough, but cheating did not occur.
Patricia
I am fortunate that cheating is relatively nonexistent in my environment. I do believe that if the students know the material they will be less apt to cheat. I once had an instructor that gave us a 3 x 5 card and told us that we could bring anything that would fit on it to our final. The trick was that most students spent so much time putting the card together that they never had to touch it because they knew the material.
Very few learners appear to cheat. I do think that those that do come from the perspective that "cheating works" and have used it previously. I spend a lot of time creating relationships with students so it would create dissonance internally for them to cheat
Hi David,
My experience with cheating is that some people are simply just dishonest, and most of them have a track record to prove their dishonesty.
Patricia
