Cheating on Tests! Does Chegg Prove Society Is Ok With Cheating? Or Does On Demand Cheating Prove We Use Bad Assessments? If Everyone Is Cheating Do We Care If Nothing Is Learned?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The size of the problem is difficult to measure, says Penn State professor Linda Treviño, coauthor of the 2012 book Cheating in College. Part of the challenge is defining what constitutes cheating. Is it getting an answer to a homework problem from a friend, peeking at a classmate’s paper during an exam, paying someone to take a test for you, plugging in answers from Chegg? It’s also tough to get reliable information. “You’re depending on people who cheat to be honest with you about whether they cheated,” Treviño says. Her book pegs the share of college students who cheat at roughly two-thirds. Students cheat for several reasons. To get better grades so they can get into an elite law or medical school. To pass required distribution courses (engineers forced to study Shakespeare and vice-versa) that they don’t care about. To save time so they can play varsity football or work a job that pays for school and supports loved ones. And because they feel that everyone else does it, and they don’t want to be at a disadvantage if they don’t cheat too. They don’t worry about getting caught. Even more troubling, they either don’t think they’re doing anything wrong or they don’t care. This paragraph comes from Forbes.  The article is titled: "This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid."  The article is written by Susan Adams.  You can read the article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2021/01/28/this-12-billion-company-is-getting-rich-off-students-cheating-their-way-through-covid/?sh=17ea5baa363f Zac and Don talk about cheating in college and in public school.  They discuss whether cheating is an indication of bad test design and instruction.  They also wonder if cheating is a big deal anymore in society. Zac and Don also mention the following books in the podcast: The Case Against Education  https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691196451/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1614555061&sr=8-1 Race Against