Quiz: What is Cheating?
Read the statements below. Mark the statements T (true) or F (false).
1. You should put quotation marks (“ “) around anything that you copied exactly from somewhere else.
2. If you use someone else’s ideas in your writing but you don’t use their exact words, you don’t need to say where you got the information.
3. You have to give your source if the information comes from a book but not if it comes from the Internet.
4. Your teacher says Friday’s Grammar test is “open book.” This means it’s OK to open your book and use it during a test.
5. During an open-book test, you are allowed to look at your neighbour’s test paper.
6. You and a friend are doing writing homework. She understands it. You don’t. It’s OK for her to explain the problem to you.
7. If you don’t understand your homework, it’s OK just to copy your friend’s answers and turn them in.
8. If a group of students does homework together, it’s OK for everyone to turn in exactly the same answers.
9. If you copy another person’s picture, homework, or test, it is a kind of stealing.
10. Copying is a serious issue in Canadian schools.
11. ______ During a M/C test or exam, it is ok
(ref. IS 22, Pr 9)
While ISs identified Prof delivery and lesson pace as the number one reason (28.9%) they don’t
understand in class, the Profs cite student language skills and vocabulary as the main reason. Another
discrepancy the data reveals is that ISs rank lack of effort/focus highly (21.3%) as to why they don’t
understand, while no Profs at all cited this as a reason.
(ISs) When I don’t understand in class, the reasons are
(Profs) When International Students don’t understand in class, the reasons are:
ISs Pr
Prof delivery, lesson pace 65 18
Vocabulary 27 25
Student language skills 33 68
Lack of effort/focus 48 0
Cultural gap 20 23
Content related 12 3
Interference, distractions 4 5
No problem 7 1
Other 11 10
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(ref. IS 40, DS 22)
Both ISs and DSs identify language as the biggest challenge in working together. 77.2% of DSs responses
identified this challenge, while the ISs response was more spread out, including language (43.9%) DSs
attitude (17.2%) (0 DSs identified this as a challenge), cultural differences (9.9%) and no significant
challenges (14.6%).
The biggest challenge in my experience in working with ISs was: IS (191/229) DS (264/343)
Language 84 (43.9%) 204 (77.2%)
Cultural Differences 19 (9.9%) 0 (0%)
Plagiarism 0 (0%) 7 (2.6%)
No Challenges 28 (14.6%) 22 (8.3%)
Work Ethic 0 (0%) 10 (0.3%)
DS Attitude 33 (17.2%) 0 (0%)
Other/Nonsense 27 (14.1%) 21 (7.9%)