The advent of technological devices has spurred much more concern regarding the so-called inappropriate use of these tools and their impact on the ethical behaviour of the students. In the same line, Academic dishonesty has been a perennial issue in higher education for hundreds of years. This being the case, students’ survival intelligence, feeling a threat causing exam anxiety, engages itself and automatically sets the learner to cheat without actively thinking about it.
As a starting point, it is vital to acknowledge that almost everybody has succumbed to the use of inappropriate resources to get high grades in exams. It is worth saying that with the advent of technological devices, cheating has become omnipresent in our classrooms. And, most universities are suffering from this phenomenon. Clearly enough, This academic misbehaviour for most scholars,though considered illogic, immoral, and even sinful for some cultures, has invaded schools and is ‘destroying’ the ethics of education.
With the earlier in mind, no one has been able to stop this behaviour in spite of the great invigilance of educational authorities and testing services, and Scholars note that cheating was prevalent thousands of years ago. On the one hand, some- people believe that cheaters are lazy students who rarely attend lectures and often fail to review their lessons. On the other hand, other think that the main cause behind cheating on exams is to avoid failure and to get excellent marks.
It means that in the 21st Century, education and its assessment system are contradicting the schools objectives, harming human rights, and causing physical and moral pain to millions of students round the world. Viewed in this way, we can consider another reason for cheating on the exam the content of the exams, which focuses on memory rather than comprehension. That is, teachers, themselves, trigger cheating on exams because the content of their exams does not take into account students’ Multiple Intelligences, and preferred channels of learning.
As a conclusion, Cheating on exams has become more popular all over the world. It has become a big problem that educators have to face to save the school from corruption and destruction. All in all, cheating as it occurs today, is a problem we will continue to face. It seems to undermine integrity and can lead to weak life performance.
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