Everyone knows one, and statistics say you are one - a cheater that is. Cheating goes on right under our noses every day in as many different ways as there are students. We've all heard the stories, the tales of how they pulled one over on the teacher or the tales of woe told by the teacher.
National statistics vary in results of how many students cheat.
The variance comes from the type of questions asked and the students' idea of what constitutes cheating. However, a 1990 study by Donald McCabe and Linda Trevino found 70 percent of students admitted to cheating and 38 percent admitted to cheating more than three times. Most students consider copying exam answers, copying homework, turning in a plagiarized paper or one written by another student cheating. To some, good grades are valuable enough to risk a grade, a teacher's respect and an academic career. To others, they are valuable enough to study and work to attain the coveted grade.