Eun+Kyung,+Ana,+Victoria

General Question: How do people define cheating? Specific Question: What do middle school students in different grade level and culture answer on a survey about what cheating is. We will do a survey asking about what cheating is and how they think about cheating. We will ask both grades 6 and 8 students (from a public school, not KIS) and randomly picked adults (age 20+ in the mall) in America and Korea. Surveys will be given to middle school students in a class (during the classroom setting) by a teacher. Surveys given to adults will be given in a public setting. We will analyze data throug comparison. Both adults in Korea and America would more likely to have negative views on cheating. We think students would cheat for different reasons. Just how Korean middle school students cheat because they are more afraid of getting bad grades than the students in the US. Korean education style is one of the most harsh ones around the world and makes students to study more than any other students around the world. Not only the education, but also parents in Korea have a way of thinking which is mostly very strict on how their children are doing in schools. They tends to think that the grade is the most significant thing to consider as being a student. On the other side, students in America have much more freedom and time to do other activities rather than just studying. While Korean students only focus on studying, American students can do many other things than studying. Also, parents in the US have different ideas about their children's school lives. From those significant differences, I think our tentative hypothesis is reasonable. [|34 N.J. schools investigated for possible cheating] This article talks about thirty four schools are being investigated for possible cheating after an exam of standardized test data revealed irregularities and raised questions. It says that abnormally high levels of test results are sometimes suspicious and considered as possible cheating. It added that even though the vast majority of our teachers are honest, a small handful of unethical people do such things that raise cheating rate. This article suggests that there should be no more of unethical things in schools, for both students and teachers. I think this article is really interesting in a way that we can observe what is going on in both Korean and American public schools about cheating. Survey: [|Many students say cheating’s OK] This article is actually very helpful to me because it exactly came up with the result what we are aiming to achieve. They did a survey asking reasons why they cheat. They came up with different reasons and the results are really interesting. The students who answered the survey argued that cheating is OK and even good for sometimes. The ways to cheat were also very diverse. More than half have plagiarized work they found on the Internet and many of them defined cheating as a shortcut and efficient one in a lot of cases. One student argues that school culture should be blamed where grades and test scores are more important than integrity. Number of students said that the pressure to do well academically and compete for good colleges has made cheating a way to survive high school. This article is very similar to what we are going to do in our experiment so it will definitely help us to do better experiment and find more precise conclusion in our research. 1. It might be difficult to find right school and right time to visit school. 2. Students might feel the survey is not anonymous so they might not tell the truth. 3. The way we ask questions in the survey can limit people's answers.
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 * Articles of Research and Literature Reviews:**
 * [|Why Kids Cheat] (Victoria)**
 * [|Technology can blur teens' view of cheating] (Ana)**
 * [|CHEATING: WHAT DO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN THINK?] (Ana)**
 * [|Why Kids Cheat, and How to Stop it.] (Victoria**
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