Argument 242. The following appeared as an editorial in the student newspaper of Groveton College.
"To combat the recently reported dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students, these institutions should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's, 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 an old-fashioned system in which students were closely monitored by teachers and an average of thirty cases of cheating per year were reported. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey conducted by the Groveton honor council, a majority of students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without."
为解决最近上报的大学生作弊现象显著增加的问题,大学和学院应该采取和Groveton学院类似的诚信制度,该制度要求学生同意在学业中不作弊,并且当他们怀疑别人作弊的时候通知老师。Groveton的诚信制度代替了原有的学生被老师严密监视的老体制,在老体制中平均每年有30起作弊被上报。该制度被证明成的多:在它实施的第一年,学生上报了21起作弊;五年后,这一数值下降到了14起。而且,在最近一次由Groveton诚信委员会组织的调查中,大部分学生说有了诚信制度他们更加不太可能作弊。 |