According to a recent report, cheating among college and university students is on the rise. However, Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which teachers closely monitored students; under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. In the first year the honor code was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Thus, all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's in order to decrease cheating among students.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The prompt suggests that, all colleges should adopt honor codes to reduce cheating cases during tests. This has been concluded based on a study that cheating cases have declined in Groveton College since they adopted honor code. This recommendation can be adopted only after the
below questions are answered.
Firstly, is there any method deviced to stop false accusations and maintain the integrity of cheating cases reported by students? This is extremely important as there can be several
students may put false accusations on their classmates due to personal rivelry. There should be structure defined and requirement of proofs should be necessary if someone wants to report a cheating case involving their classmates.
Secondly, are the structure of examination and sitting arangement of Groveton College and all the other universities similar? This is important to study in cases where sitting arrangement is not in a way where students can see how other students are cheating. Hence not everyone may be aware of the false practice taking place in the classroom which may lead to many such cases go unnoticed. Also, exam structures can be different for different examinations, this may obviate honor code obviate as many universities keeps examinations online, with multiple choice questions. Such exams have different questions for every student due to which honor code may not be
required
Furthermore, it is nowhere mentioned in the prompt that cheating instances are reduced due to only honor code. While it may be true that some cases may have reduced after the honor code was applied in university. But is that on only reason why the cheating cases have reduced. For example, it may be possible that exam difficulty level has reduced in the later years that let to reduced cheating cases in Groveton College as they dont need to cheat to get the passing score
anymore.
Lastly, was the study conducted included students who cheat on regular basis? If not then there may be a possibily that they were not going to cheat in an exam regardless of an invigilator
around. For instance, if the study was conducted with twenty students of a classrom who were performing averagly on their tests and were rarely involved in any such activities. In such ascenario this study will not reflect accurate results and students who actually cheat may continue it even if honor code is in place, because their priority is passing the exams and not their reputation within their peers.
Hence, before reaching to any conclusion on applying honor code in all universities and colleges it is important to present data (based on scientific case study) so that it can be properly
compared with the previous circumstances. Applying such new strategy without much research on all colleges can lead to dampning of student's motivation who are working hard for their scores.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 470 350
No. of Characters: 2352 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.656 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.004 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.613 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 138 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 103 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.381 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.569 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.762 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.313 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...udy that cheating cases have declined in Groveton College since they adopted hono...
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...mmendation can be adopted only after the below questions are answered. Firstly...
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...ccusations and maintain the integrity of cheating cases reported by students? Thi...
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...remely important as there can be several students may put false accusations on th...
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...of proofs should be necessary if someone wants to report a cheating case involvin...
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...an see how other students are cheating. Hence not everyone may be aware of the false...
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...different examinations, this may obviate honor code obviate as many universities ...
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...ersities keeps examinations online, with multiple choice questions. Such exams ...
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...eat to get the passing score anymore. Lastly, was the study conducted included...
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...ed students who cheat on regular basis? If not then there may be a possibily that...
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... in an exam regardless of an invigilator around. For instance, if the study was c...
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...ir priority is passing the exams and not their reputation within their peers. ...
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...ic case study so that it can be properly compared with the previous circumstances...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2463.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 471.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22929936306 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68056441773 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464968152866 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 769.5 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0247641504 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.15 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.55 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.7 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 33.0 5.15768463074 640% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.354736633544 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125463455549 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650915001238 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0966812242171 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.071795167157 0.0628817314937 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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