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I teach at a (somewhat academic) high school, and we've noticed a massive shift in how students think about copying in the past few years - about half of our st

I teach at a (somewhat academic) high school, and we've noticed a massive shift in how students think about copying in the past few years - about half of our students think it's OK to share answers for an assessment where it will assist another student (i.e. classical notion of cheating). I'm very curious if this is a mind-shift in younger people that are just a lot happier to share things, and this is just a consequence. The other thing to consider with this is that the assessment system probably needs to be overhauled entirely - which would be a good thing as there are plenty of other reasons why it's broken.

stale2002 9y ago
Here is one big reason why "cheating" happens. It isnt directly related to the high school level, and more applicable to the college, though. The problem is that different classes/subjects/majors have wildly different expectations with regards to how much you are allowed to collaborate with other students. For example, in my business and economics classes I took, collaboration is encouraged by the professors so much that everyone just works together on everything, without even asking if it is cheating, because of course it isn't. And people who take these classes then go on to take a class in a different subject, where you are not in a situation where literally every single assignment is a group project, and they forget to ask if what they are doing is allowed.