“Explosion of Classroom Cheating”

In a survey of 20,000 first-year university students
in Canada, 73 percent “admitted to committing
one or more serious acts of academic dishonesty
on written work while in high school,”
says the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL).
One university reported that cases of cheating
and plagiarism increased by 81 percent between
the years 2003 and 2006. “Over the past decade,”
says Dr. Paul Cappon, president of CCL, “internet
and high-tech devices have enabled a virtual
explosion of classroom cheating.