Academic honesty is the use of ones owns thoughts and materials in a piece or writing, test taking, or other educational activities. Academic Integrity is often put to trial with student athletes. However, because of a history of problems associated with college sports, campuses had to develop policies and consequences for a failure to abide to academic honesty. “Since 1990, the Division I Committee on Infractions has found violations of this bylaw in 23 major infractions cases” (McCaw 2012). Student athlete expectations are to exceed on the field and in the books. With limited time many athletes will resort to finding an easier way to do so. Examples of academic dishonesty, are the dissemination of quiz answers to student athletes who are in critical need of passing a class to be eligible to play. Academic Integrity requires a student to be honest and responsible in obeying rules of the school and taking personal pride in their academics. Depending on one’s definition of academic dishonesty in The Journal of Higher Education, “Studies report that anywhere from 13 to 95 percent of college students engage in some form of academic dishonesty” (McCabe & Trevino, 1993).
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Studies have also shown that each individual differs in their reason for cheating, such as gender, grade point average, competitive achievement and self esteem. Understanding and accepting academic integrity policies is the first step in preventing academic dishonesty within a university. Student athletes must understand these policies and how they can differ significantly in their content and in the manner they are communicated. For example, a student who may have taken a quiz before another student should not discuss the questions with a fellow student who has not taken the quiz. Many students lack the understanding of what cheating may be. This lack of understanding and communication from administration may lead students to cheat on accident. There are many ways students can cheat whether done intentionally or not. Some examples given by Dr. Charlene Alexander, “Using phones to take a picture of the exam; plagiarizing; fabrication and so on” (2015). Many universities will not tolerate academic cheating or plagiarism in any form. One type of plagiarism she stated was the use of custom term paper writing services where one can purchase a term paper, research paper or essay. Another example of plagiarism is submitting another student’s work as your own. A person may be willing to fabricate as well because they feel the need complete an assignment they should have planned for in advance. Fabrication is the faking of results, as …show more content…
Some cases include coaches, tutors or classmates giving student athletes answers to quiz’s, writing their essays and taking online courses for them. David Goldfield a professor of history at the University of North Carolina states, “When there’s pressure applied you’re going to get a reaction, and the reaction we’re seeing is academic fraud cases” (Powers 2007). It has become difficult to track down all academic dishonesty cases because many of them involve a larger scale of authority involved in some cases. They can involve wrongdoing by people in all parts of the institution and often are not reported. If there is an increase of reports in the last couple years, it is because people are reporting the infractions now. Simply adding more tutors and graduate students does not get at the problem because these lower level employees feel the pressure to make a coach happy and keep an athlete
Studies have also shown that each individual differs in their reason for cheating, such as gender, grade point average, competitive achievement and self esteem. Understanding and accepting academic integrity policies is the first step in preventing academic dishonesty within a university. Student athletes must understand these policies and how they can differ significantly in their content and in the manner they are communicated. For example, a student who may have taken a quiz before another student should not discuss the questions with a fellow student who has not taken the quiz. Many students lack the understanding of what cheating may be. This lack of understanding and communication from administration may lead students to cheat on accident. There are many ways students can cheat whether done intentionally or not. Some examples given by Dr. Charlene Alexander, “Using phones to take a picture of the exam; plagiarizing; fabrication and so on” (2015). Many universities will not tolerate academic cheating or plagiarism in any form. One type of plagiarism she stated was the use of custom term paper writing services where one can purchase a term paper, research paper or essay. Another example of plagiarism is submitting another student’s work as your own. A person may be willing to fabricate as well because they feel the need complete an assignment they should have planned for in advance. Fabrication is the faking of results, as …show more content…
Some cases include coaches, tutors or classmates giving student athletes answers to quiz’s, writing their essays and taking online courses for them. David Goldfield a professor of history at the University of North Carolina states, “When there’s pressure applied you’re going to get a reaction, and the reaction we’re seeing is academic fraud cases” (Powers 2007). It has become difficult to track down all academic dishonesty cases because many of them involve a larger scale of authority involved in some cases. They can involve wrongdoing by people in all parts of the institution and often are not reported. If there is an increase of reports in the last couple years, it is because people are reporting the infractions now. Simply adding more tutors and graduate students does not get at the problem because these lower level employees feel the pressure to make a coach happy and keep an athlete