Comments on: Cheats and the Cheaters That Use Them https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/07/09/cheats-and-the-cheaters-that-use-them/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:10:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: G. Weaire https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/07/09/cheats-and-the-cheaters-that-use-them/comment-page-1/#comment-7311 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:10:22 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1288#comment-7311 I think this underplays another motive behind trying to stamp out cheating, one that I think is more powerful on the level of the individual instructor than concern for the value of the credential.

One wants to be fair to the students who don’t cheat. Some other student is getting a C or a D because they followed the rules. There may be practical consequences: they may lose their scholarship. But even if there aren’t, there’s no point in pretending that we don’t want students to become psychologically invested in their grades.

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