Artifact #7

This article "Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating " talks about the things professors have started doing to prevent so much cheating in their classrooms.  A cheating rate of 50% is a little too large for comfort, in my opinion.  Yes this data was from 2002 and the percentage has dropped a little recently, but I still think that cheating is a serious issue.  I, personally did not see an issue in my high school with cheating by plagiarizing for papers or looking answers up online for tests, but then again we never had online tests, so I guess that was a way for my school to eliminate the problem of cheating in that way before it even started.  But then again I know cheating by copying homework, looking off of other people during tests, etc. does happen, which is still a serious issue.  Noone is benefiting from someone else's work, but that obviously will not be realized until one day they are struggling through their job that they cheated through college to get.  Cracking down on students is a great thing that needs to be done for students to learn their lessons.  It is unbelievable the ideas kids have come up with just to cheat.  If they would spend that time studying or actually doing their homework, they would be a lot more successful in their academics.