114 UniT 08 | Rules – make or break? Read the article more carefully now, then choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for questions 1–5. Put a cross ( ) in the correct box. The first one (0) has been done for you. READING 22 Studies of student behavior and attitudes show that a large number of US students cheat in school to some degree, and that successful students are just as likely to do it as others. Moreover, the problem has gotten worse over the last few decades. Experts say the reasons for this development are relatively simple: Cheating has become easier and more widely tolerated, and both schools and parents are not clear enough about what is allowed and what is not. “There’s no doubt that students have become more competitive, under more pressure, and, as a result, more things are excused than before,” said Donald L. McCabe, a professor at the Rutgers University Business School. “There have always been struggling students who cheat to make it through school somehow,” he said. “But more and more, there are students at the top who cheat to be more successful.” There are numerous reasons for these big changes in cheating culture. First, the internet has made cheating easier. Through quick downloading, searching, cutting and pasting, students can simply find answers, ask friends for help and plagiarize others’ works. And research has shown that a big factor in any bad behavior is how easy or hard it is. In fact, some studies found that the more online tools college students were allowed to use, the more likely they were to copy the work of others. Other reasons may be the big focus on team work in many schools, or that students simply don’t know what cheating is. Some people blame modern culture, in which everyone wants to be very successful, no matter how. Many believe that it is the schools which should make cheating harder and punish it more strictly. Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics says, “When you let students carry smartphones into tests, it’s an invitation to cheat.” Some experts claim that along with students, schools and technology, parents can be blamed too. They say that since the 1960s, parents’ main goals have become their children’s happiness and success. After all, nowadays nobody could imagine a parent coming to school and yelling at their child for cheating in a test. Instead, teachers tell tales of students whose mothers wrote their homework for them. So what’s the point of this trend? Should teachers of the future check the work mom does? Studies find more students cheating, even successful students By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA 0 In the US, cheating A is quite a new problem. B is common among few students only. C has become a bigger issue over time. D has never been seen among successful students. 1 Students nowadays A feel they must succeed. B don’t want to work hard. C usually don’t get good grades. D know exactly what cheating is. 2 Students who do well at school A work harder than others. B don’t need to work as hard as others. C also cheat in tests sometimes. D generally never cheat. 3 There is evidence that students cheat more if A they are told exactly what they are not allowed to do. B they work together in teams. C it doesn’t require much effort. D teachers are very strict. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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