Essay on Ethical Behavior of Business Students at Bayview University

Based on Paul Feldman’s findings, the authors of Freakonomics argue that a person, who is faced with an efficient way to cheat, will not necessarily choose to. The data involved in Feldman’s accidental bagel study proves that not all humans are corrupt. However,

|Proportion of students who have cheated in at least one form = 37/90 = 0.4111 |

Either the students cheat themselves or they are trying to cheat their professors. Some Rabbis even claim that it’s a big Issur of Gneivat Daat, but I disagree and think that the focus shouldn’t be on the Halacha perspective about cheating, but about the morals that as a school who represent the Jewish world. If we show the world of ethical and honest we are, not just we make the other religions loves us, but also we are going to make a big Kiddush Hashem. And I am a fervent believer that with this attitude of positivity, we will make a big change in and out of the university

Proportion of all business students at Rocky University who were not involved in some type of cheating, are as follows: p1 = 0.1 (9/90).

A survey of 85 families showed that 36 owned at least one DVD player. Find the 99% confidence interval estimate of the true proportion of families who own at least on DVD player. Place your limits, rounded to 3 decimal places, in the blanks. Place the lower limit in the first blank  and the upper limit in the second blank  When entering your answer do not use any labels or symbols other than the decimal point. Simply provide the numerical values. For example, 0.123 would be a legitimate entry.

46. As a condition of employment, Fashion Industries applicants must pass a drug test. Of the last 220 applicants 14 failed the test. Develop a 99 percent confidence interval for the proportion of applicants that fail the test. Would it be reasonable to conclude that more than 10 percent of the applicants are now failing the test? In addition to the testing of applicants, Fashion Industries randomly tests its employees throughout the year. Last year in the 400 random tests conducted, 14 employees failed the test. Would it be reasonable to conclude that less than 5 percent of the employees are not able to pass the random drug test?

10. A professor at Kaplan University claims that the average age of all Kaplan students is 36 years old. Use a 95% confidence interval to test the professor 's claim. Is the professor 's claim reasonable or not? Explain.

The instructors of the University worry that the students will cheat during the exams the following ways:

with this research was that the results are only based on 29 students and 27 of them

To partially prove the effectiveness of the required factors to eliminate doping mentioned in The Broken Window, which are adequate tests, improved testing technologies and strict punishments, I have sent a survey about cheating to students from three random Year 13 classes in my school. 32 students responded to the survey, and the outcome is consistent with my prediction.

The 4.0 student will risk everything in order to go to the university that they most prefer. It doesn’t matter what they do, because they have all the pressure on there back. The 4.0 is probably more pressure at home then the average student. According to a study 51% of high school students have admitted on cheat and 73% admitted on copying homework.(Dr.Ehrlich) How can a college trust how smart someone is if there is a chance of the student cheating? If they cheat in high school, they are going to send students to colleges that are going to fail because, “it's hard,” and they can’t pass. Studies also show that high ability student can cheat more or almost the same as the low ability. (Fu) This shows that it doesn’t matter how smart you are the possibility of you cheats are not in your

One reason people cheat is due to the social incentives that pressure them. To illustrate, a social incentive could be “competitive pressures” (Buchmann 2). Students in high school are academically competitive,

Salter and his colleagues (Salter et al. 2001) studied cheating attitudes and behaviors among accounting students from the U.S. and U.K. They found American students were more likely to cheat and were more responsive to external stimuli than were the UK students. The finding was explained in terms of differential levels of uncertainty avoidance.

In Survey I, 91.9% of the participants reported that they have cheated on at least one homework assignment; however, when asked why they receive answers, 13.5% of the participants stated that they do not receive answers (Appendix D). Therefore, it can be concluded that some students believe that cheating on homework assignments is not considered as immoral. This may further explain why students cheat.

The third and last point of the outcomes of this piece of work concerns the characteristic features of cheaters. Indeed, candidates who are at their third partaking in the baccalauréat (54.2 %) cheat more than any other candidate. Furthermore, the age of those who cheat more is between 20 and 25 years old, followed by candidates whose age is between 30 and 35. Moreover, they cheat more in literature than in science.