Foreign Students Seen Cheating More Than Domestic Ones
This article spends way too much time on badly substantiated differences in cultural norms, and not nearly enough on the differences in incentives and skills between international and domestic students.<p>English skill is an obvious one the article talks about, but along with that comes an understanding of what is likely to get caught by a professor. In other words, domestic students don&#x27;t cheat as much not because they believe in norms against cheating but rather because they understand better that they will probably get caught, or they understand better how not to get caught (so they don&#x27;t get caught).<p>The article discusses incentives as well — the risk of getting sent back to China and never coming back — but fails to consider that that risk is precisely what might make getting good grades more important for foreign students than domestic ones.<p>What I&#x27;m describing could be seen as a difference in cultural norms too, but there&#x27;s a huge gap between not believing that you&#x27;re cheating and not knowing how cheaters in America get caught.