Ethics and the College Student

1. Technology

1.1. Does technology help or hinder good ethical decisions

1.1.1. Flannery,M 2004 cell phones make it easy to text or save anwsers to a test. There are many web sites like schoolsucks.com and ivyessays.com that students can pay for.

1.2. Does technology help teachers with catching cheaters.

1.2.1. Flannery,M 2004 Metioned teachers have the technology at their finger tips to catch a student copying and pasting an essay from the internet..

1.2.2. Learning institutes can use company's on line like grammarly.com and plagiarisma.net. theses two companys are just two of the thousands of plagiarizer checkers.

1.2.3. ''It's so easy to cheat now,'' Dr. Presti said. ''But this increasing digitalization is also making it easier to find cheaters out.'' KOPYTOFF, V 2000, 1P

1.3. What can teachers do to prevent technology from being used unethically in class.

1.3.1. Marcoux, E 2010 she teachers need to learn new techniques and new strategy in this technical age.

2. Cheating

2.1. Is cheating something that is engrained in students or is it learned from seeing cheating being done

2.1.1. (McCabe & Trevino, 1996) found that perceptions of unethical peer behavior were justification students gave for cheating.

2.1.2. The issue of cheating is fundamentally one of character. Character is most readily molded during times of transition, and adolescence is prime among them.

2.2. What pushes a student to cheat

2.2.1. Forexample, McCabe and Trevino (1997) found that peer influence is among the strongest demographic and contextual factors affecting the level of cheating among students. Moreover, a previous study by these authors found that both peer pressure and technology increased the variety of classroom cheating.

2.3. What percentage of students cheat

2.3.1. University students often cheat. Depending on circumstances, the rate of cheating among college students varies between 13% and 95% (McCabe and Trevino, 1993)

3. honor code

3.1. Does the honor code promote good ethical decisions

3.1.1. We find that the mere inclusion of an Honor Code significantly reduces the instances of cheating, but having students write why academic integrity is important has no significant effect on their behavior. (Ely, J; Henderson, L; Wachsman, Y. 2014)

3.2. Honor code VS. No Code

3.2.1. Teachers that do not have a lot of cheating in class is because there institution has a strong honor code. Callahan, D Dec 2010

3.3. Why do colleges use honor codes

3.3.1. Honor codes are used to help prevent students from cheating.

4. Resourses

4.1. Cyber Cheating Flanery mary. Ellen NEA/To date Nov 2004

4.2. Academic Dishonesty: Honor Codes and Other Contextual Influences Donald L. McCabe and Linda Klebe Trevino The Journal of Higher Education Vol. 64, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1993) , pp. 522-538 Published by: Ohio State University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2959991

4.3. HONOR AMONG STUDENTS Klosterman, ChuckView Profile. New York Times Magazine (Jan 6, 2013): 14.

4.4. COLLEGES STARTING TO REVERSE RAMPANT ACADEMIC CHEATING Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania), February 20, 2000, Sunday,, NATIONAL,, 921 words, KENNETH R. WEISS, LOS ANGELES TIMES

4.5. http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/11956.pdf

5. We will be talking about ethics and the college student. What is Ethics it is that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. Now with that in mind how does college student find a way to cheat? College is hard if it would be easy everyone would have a degree. Does technology push a student to cheat? Everything is easier assessable for research or tests. There are Honor Codes that colleges have students sign to ensure they do the right thing. Does these honor codes promote students to make the right decision or is it just a piece of paper students are required to sign. In this presentation we will discuss these questions and try and find out why ethics is a big issue in college.

6. Whith the 21st centry apone us technology has grown dramatically.