Cheating Statistics- An ethical crisis

This is a listing of various survey results related to test cheating.
According to surveys in U.S. News and World Report:

• 80% of “high-achieving” high school students admit to cheating.
• 51% of high school students did not believe cheating was wrong.
• 95% of cheating high school students said that they had not been detected.
• 75% of college students admitted cheating, and 90% of college students didn’t believe cheaters would be caught.
• Almost 85% of college students said cheating was necessary to get ahead.

Professor Donald McCabe, leading expert in academic integrity, in a May 2001 study of over 4500 high school students, found the following:

• 72% of students reported one or more instances of serious cheating on written work
• 15% had submitted a paper obtained in large part from a term paper mill or website
• 52% had copied a few sentences from a website w/o citing the source
• over 45% admitted to collaborating inappropriately with others on assignments

In a sample of 1,800 students at nine state universities:

• 70% of the students admitted to cheating on exams
• 84% admitted to cheating on written assignments
• 52% had copied a few sentences from a website w/o citing the source

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