Academic Integrity Response

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Academic Integrity Response
In recent studies described in the article “Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception” by Richard Perez-Pena it was found that students academic integrity has been slowly depleted overtime in both high and low achieving students. The article explains how cheating has become more tolerated and easier to do with the advancing technology and improper teaching of ethics in the classroom, diminishing large amounts of students academic integrity.
There are various things that are considered bad academic integrity according to this article. Some specific examples are cheating on exams as well as getting extensive help on essays such as plagiarizing or parental “guidance”. Using other students …show more content…

One thing that may start to help with this problem is changing the standards that we hold modern day students to. The academic standards that we hold kids to nowadays is a lot higher than in previous decades and continues to grow. My academic integrity is just fine only because I was raised in a family with two teachers as parents. Although they have taught me the right way to work in school I was and am still held at almost unrealistic standards. For example if I get one B on a petty quiz or test my dad literally treats it as a huge disappointment. For most kids my age if they were held to this high of a standard they would find anyway to make their parents disappointed. In a sense this promotes teenagers to cheat. Another way we can help increase the academic integrity in students is by repeatedly teaching them at a young age how to be academically honest. Along with teaching them good integrity they should also be pushed harder to try their best and to be accepted with any intelligence level they achieve. One last thing that could help to diminish the bad academic integrity in students is to limit the technologies and resources that some students are exposed to in class. This solution could mean either being stricter on what students can do, or simply not letting them be on their phones more. If you limit the resources that allow students to become academically “dishonest” they will not have the chance to cheat. If these simple solutions were instilled into our society it would no doubt have some significance in making students more academically

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