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Academic Cheating Fact Sheet

Academic cheating is defined as representing someone else's work as your own. It can take many forms, including sharing another's work, purchasing a term paper or test questions in advance, paying another to do the work for you.

Statistics show that cheating among high school students has risen dramatically during the past 50 years.

In the past it was the struggling student who was more likely to cheat just to get by. Today it is also the above-average college bound students who are cheating.

73% of all test takers, including prospective graduate students and teachers agree that most students do cheat at some point. 86% of high school students agreed.

Cheating no longer carries the stigma that it used to. Less social disapproval coupled with increased competition for admission into universities and graduate schools has made students more willing to do whatever it takes to get the A.

Grades, rather than education, have become the major focus of many students.

Fewer college officials (35%) believe that cheating is a problem, in this country than do members of the public (41%).

High school students are less likely than younger test takers to report cheaters, because it would be "tattling" or "ratting out a friend."

Many students feel that their individual honesty in academic endeavors will not effect anyone else.

While about 20% of college students admitted to cheating in high school during the 1940's, today between 75 and 98 percent of college students surveyed each year report having cheated in high school.

Students who cheat often feel justified in what they are doing. They cheat because they see others cheat and they think they will be unfairly disadvantaged. The cheaters are getting 100 on the exam, while the non-cheaters may only get 90's.

In most cases cheaters don't get caught. If caught, they seldom are punished severely, if at all.

Cheating increases due to pressure for high grades.

Math and Science are the courses in which cheating most often occurs.

Computers can make cheating easier than ever before. For example, students can download term papers from the world wide web.