Is there any statistic anywhere that shows the degree of cheating students within a high school or college?

TLDR; Sorry for the long post. I got a bit carried away, but overall, I just wanted to ask the following:

1. Is the number of students caught cheating within a high school or college reported anywhere?
2. If so, would anyone happen to know where I could find it?

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Some background:

Hi! I'm new here and I've read some of the posts and they've been really interesting. However, there has been something on my mind for quite some time now. I was wondering if there were any reportable measurement anywhere that documented a students likelihood to cheat based on what school they go to. The reason I ask, is that now that I've gotten to travel around a bit between quite a few states across the country, I noticed that the approach to education differs greatly from time to time.

In particular, I noticed during my undergraduate years and beyond, that even if students went to a particularly well-rated high school, they were still very likely to cheat. The only thing I noticed is that it was highly coordinated, and oftentimes, across well over 10+ students who had clearly been doing it for years. Another thing that stood out to me, is that education to these same students were a status symbol, while those from other areas had a particularly different focus with regards to their education. Usually, when I see people get caught, what I noticed is that they usually aren't from these schools, and then getting caught was more or less in response to having given up on the "learning" part of their studies, poor coordination, or moreover, they are just trying to make it out.

Something that stood out to me greatly over the years was meeting people who actually wanted to learn in school. I, personally, met individuals and teachers from what are considered "low-rated" schools, mostly only to find that neither of which truly wanted to be there. To the teachers, it showed that the students were losing interest, but to the students, it showed that the teachers seemed to have stopped caring quite some time ago. Which, while I understand that result of becoming a low-rated school, I often wonder how it gets that way, and if teaching methods come into play at all. So, cheating will respect to them isn't what I want to focus on here.

Why do people cheat from highly-rated schools?

It was quite interesting how differently the students were taught when I got to compare responses to the question, "Why do you personally go to school?." In some areas, while a school can produce "competitive" students, they don't necessarily produce competitive students (if you know what I mean), and sometime it is the other way around. Having taken courses from a few different states myself, it would seem like some schools are the type to attempt to "weed out" students, which so far, seems to produce more students who cheat, or those with a "fake it until you make it" mentality as it pertains to their education.

However, for the schools that didn't seem to be of this nature, it seemed that the main reason for it was that the students were taught in such a way that allowed for them to connect the dots with whatever it was that they were interested in. The professors and teachers more so wanted to share their love of the subject, as opposed to teaching something that they truly didn't care about. I still meet people everyday who love to talk about whatever it is they are learning, and attribute that passion to some experience in high school where they were "allowed" to grow in their own way. I thought it was pretty cool how often I heard the same story over and over at times.

So far at least, it seemed that students that cheat often come from the same school, or at the very least, a place where the only goal is to get through it with X marks to get X job to get X amount of money. I'm personally looking for measurements on this online, but I'm not able to find them anywhere. I don't think schools have to report that, but I truly wonder what I'd find if they did. Would anyone here know if that is a metric they report?

Submitted April 09, 2022 at 04:12AM by siege5548 https://ift.tt/1yAekjt