Academic Integrity
College student, Nathan, was spotted cheating in an examination. The essence of his interview with his Dean is that cheating constitutes an ethical offense. As stated by the Dean, even famous personalities such as St. Augustine, Tolstoy, and Malcolm X gained the finest ethical sense out of experience; this included learning from where they went wrong. Furthermore, he stated that bonds can be forged by discussing ethics with others. This helps us more in times of immediate or emotional crises than all ethics-defining intellectual doctrines.
A complaint was lodged with the police against four Bihar students (Bihar is an Indian state) who were toppers in their school-leaving examination, following an inquiry that discovered they had cheated. The State educational board organized a retest for as many as 13 students, following a viral Internet video showing an arts stream student, Ms. Ruby Rai stating the subject political science dealt with cooking. Two science students' results were cancelled, but those of 11 others were cleared. Ms. Rai failed to write the retest. Over a million pupils gave the State school-leaving exams. The complaint lodged with the police identified students Ms. Rai (mentioned above), a Ms. Shalini Rai, and science students Rahul Kumar and Saurabh Shrestha. Shalini Rai was not, at first, required to take the examination again, and no clear information can be found on how authorities established that she had cheated, as well (BBC, 2016). Further, the State educational board lodged a complaint with police against Vishnu Dev Rai College, Vaishali's administrators --students were attendees of that college. In the previous year's state exams,...
For preventing cheating in the current year's exams, a thoroughly-embarrassed Bihar state government declared that it would adopt tough measures (e.g., fines, incarceration, etc.) if anybody was caught cheating. The decidedly poorer pass rate indicated that their tactic had worked. However, Rai's interview footage gave rise to fresh questions and embarrassment for authorities in Bihar (BBC, 2016).
Another case is a SAT/ACT test -- related felony, where wealthy parties paid off others to write their SAT/ACT tests. Suspects hailed from respectable and well-known households, some currently under financial strain. The five charged with felony include a famous lawyer's son, the son of a local library board president, and a youth hailing from an affluent philanthropic family. Youngsters charged with paying an exorbitant sum of $3,600 for scoring high on their ACT and SAT tests were basically undistinguished pupils who were ready to improve their unexceptional resumes by cutting corners. The combination gave rise to one among the most remarkable cheating scandals ever, a forceful reflection on American college hopefuls' fierce struggle -- and, possibly, contemporary ethics on a broader scale. According to Gold Coast (Long Island) prosecutors, parents, teens, and principals, at a few of the most prestigious American high schools, it was known by one and all that those who had the means could easily find somebody with better mathematical and linguistic skills to help them pass with flying colors. Individuals filled in on the probe stated that a 2010 graduate of the…
