{"id":274771,"date":"2026-06-17T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/many-college-students-already-have-well-formed-cheating-habits-that-not-ai-is-the-real-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:05:13","slug":"many-college-students-already-have-well-formed-cheating-habits-that-not-ai-is-the-real-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/many-college-students-already-have-well-formed-cheating-habits-that-not-ai-is-the-real-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Many college students already have well-formed cheating habits \u2013 that, not AI, is the real problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many college students already have well-formed cheating habits \u2013 that, not AI, is the real problem<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/many-college-students-already-have-well-formed-cheating-habits-that-not-ai-is-the-real-problem-285334<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-17 08:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n

My colleagues and I recently spoke with a group of talented, interesting students who just completed their first year of college about using artificial intelligence as a research tool. <\/p>\n

I asked what must have seemed like an unrelated question: \u201cHow many of you cheated in high school?\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the students raised their hands. Perhaps comforted by the realization that they had plenty of company, they seemed neither embarrassed nor ashamed.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time I\u2019ve asked my students that question. On each occasion, the results have been pretty much the same.<\/p>\n

By the time students end up in college classrooms, many have encountered cheating and think it makes sense in some cases to do so, because of factors like pressure to succeed. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear: AI has not created the problem of intellectual dishonesty among this generation of students. <\/p>\n

Alas, the problem long predates AI and runs much deeper.<\/p>\n

The cheating pipeline<\/h2>\n

Many college students are honest and hardworking. But by the time some students get to college, they have become accustomed to academic misconduct in American high schools. <\/p>\n

As Eric Anderman, a scholar of educational psychology, wrote in 2018: \u201cAcademic cheating is prevalent throughout all types of American high schools. Data from one large national study indicated that 51% of high school students admit that they have cheated during a test.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other research on high school cheating found in 2020 that 64% of 70,000 high school students across the country admitted to cheating on a test, and 58% admitted to plagiarism. Approximately 95% of high school students, meanwhile, said they \u201cparticipated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism or copying homework.\u201d <\/p>\n

And in one Pennsylvania high school, 90 of the 100 respondents to a 2018 school survey \u201cadmitted to cheating on some form of schoolwork at least once.\u201d <\/p>\n

One of the respondents put it simply: \u201cEverybody cheats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students can cheat for…<\/p>\n

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