Not recording s ources of thoughts and ideas contributes to plagiarism as well. If one member abuses the rules, know one on the team knows their work is plagiarized. There are a broad range of factors which lead students to cheating. The pressure to succeed in the modern world is attributed as one of these factors. They are not only doing academic work, but working for an income.
Pressures are greater for the students, even with the trend of grade inflation.
At the same time, twenty percent will never cheat. The other sixty percent are occasionally tempted to cheat. Its not as much as at other universities, but it still happens. If students are invested in an academic environment based on trust and integrity, they will be less likely to violate the community. If there is no sense of community in the classroom, then students are more likely to take advantage of it, Lyles-Chockley said.