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Show Ration - wide College Survey Reveals Cheating Problem cerns the prevalence of academic dishonesty on American college campuses," says the report. "At least half the students in the sample have engaged in some form of academic dishonesty dishon-esty since coming to college. This is probably a conservative estimate. THE MAGNITUDE of the problem is grossly underestimated underesti-mated by members of the campus cam-pus community. "Two and a half times as many students have cheated as student body presidents estimate, and more than three times as many have cheated as deans estimate. esti-mate. "CAMPUS AUTHORITIES say that only a small proportion of those who cheat, even according YORK, N.Y.-(I-P.)-A ?i wide survey of hundreds "f! and thousands of stu-yAmerican stu-yAmerican colleges jversities has revealed amount of academic dis-'ji dis-'ji in college is "grossly Sunated" by students body presidents and Ml a small proportion of who cheat are caught and .fished. purees of college cheating traced to the high school fences of 'Students. f ch()ols with honor systems !i apt to have a high level Cine than those with other to their conservative estimates, are caught and punished. "Only relatively lenient punishments pun-ishments are imposed for academic aca-demic dishonesty at most schools. "SELDOM ARE students suspended sus-pended or dismissed for violating violat-ing norms of academic integrity, despite the fact that authorities consider this a serious disciplinary disciplin-ary problem. "Large schools have higher levels of cheating than small ones, and coeducational schools have higher levels than either men's or women's colleges, the latter having the lowest rates. "THE ADVANTAGE of the single-sex schools seems partly due to their higher academic quality on the average. "The level of cheating is much lower at schools that place primary pri-mary responsibility for dealing with cases of academic dishonesty dis-honesty in the hands of the students stu-dents and their elected representatives, represen-tatives, as under the honor system, sys-tem, than at schools that rely on faculty-centered control or have a form of mixed control, in which faculty and students jointly participate. "PRESUMABLY, in return for the privileges and trust students are accorded under the honor system, they develop a stronger sense of commitment to norms of academic integrity and, thereby, there-by, a climate of peer disapproval of cheating emerges on the campus." dements for control. .Elements of school quality associated with low levels cheating. 0 SURVEY was conducted h William J. Bowers of Colum-l Colum-l University's Bureau of Ap-ijVped Ap-ijVped Social Research. ') He work was supported by le Cooperative Research Pro-Liof Pro-Liof the Office of Education, 01 a Wed States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. cfe jhe FINDINGS are contained a:i is report titled "Student Dishonesty Dis-honesty and its Control in Col- Its conclusions are based on p) answers by more than 600 .'allege deans and more than 550 11 sident body presidents to a 61-Eiitein 61-Eiitein questionnaire and (2) an-Sfe an-Sfe urn by 5,422 students to a 'te litem questionnaire. . 's IB- "PERHAPS THE most alarming alarm-ing finding of this study con-to con-to i |