Prepare to fail if you cheat in college
Young-Jin Lee, an assistant professor at the University of Kansas, spent four years studying cheating by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using MasteringPhysics, an online homework tutoring system. Here's what he found:
- Students who procrastinated also copied more often. Those who started their homework three days ahead of deadline copied less than 10 percent of their problems, while those who waited until the last minute were repetitive copiers.
- Students who copied frequently had about three times the chance of failing the course.
- Students are twice as likely to copy on written homework than on online homework.
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