Unit 2:

1. In your opinion or experience, why do some students chose to cheat? What are some of the different reasons students give? Do you know people who cheated in high school or college? (you can respond generally. I am not looking for names).
1. Because they didn’t study very hard but they want to get good grades or pass the test, they don’t want to be failed. So they choose to cheat.
2. Yes, in my high school, one of my classmates, he always has problems when teacher send the exam paper, his papers always have problems (he said he should get more higher grades because teachers made mistakes, actually, he changed his wrong answer to correct one), finally, teachers copied his paper before they send him, and when he saw his wrong answer of copied paper, he couldn’t say anything.

2. In the US if you were caught plagiarizing assignments you would immediately be given a failing grade. You could also be immediately expelled from the university for “academic dishonesty”. Since the reason you were expelled would be written on your transcripts, every other university you applied to would know you once got caught cheating. What types of punishment are generally given for cheating on exams or class work in Taiwan? Do you think these punishments are a sufficient deterrent to cheating? What do you think the punishment should be?
In Taiwan, If you get caught cheating, you’ll get zero in that exam, and be recorded a demerit, but you can do some campus service to correct it, I think it’s not enough, maybe we should follow the punishment of the US, I think if people know they will be engraved the “academic dishonesty” and no one will accept it, then they’ll be scared of the punishment, and not cheating.

3. You will have to think creatively for your answer here: Even with the threat of severe punishment, the readings above indicate that cheating is still a problem. One reason is because students naturally assume they will get away with it and won’t get caught. Therefore, severe consequences probably won’t be enough, by themselves, to stop students from cheating (if you don’t think you will get caught, it’s easy to ignore the possible consequences). What can be done? What real solutions should be tried? Are teachers and students in perpetual race to see who can get trickier? What other solutions can be tried to stop cheating? Be specific with your suggestions.
Maybe teachers can limit students only take their pens to the class room on the exam, and students’ seat had be arranged (we don’t know who sits next to us), and take a video tape during the exam.