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Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on last Wednesday.



The study of 5,300 graduate students in the United States and Canada found that 56 percent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the past year, with many saying they cheated because they believed it was an accepted practice in business.



Following business students, 54 percent of graduate engineering students admitted to cheating, as did 50 percent of physical science students, 49 percent of medical and health-care students, 45 percent of law students, 43 percent of liberal arts students and 39 percent of social science and humanities students.



"Students have reached the point where they're making their own rules," said lead author Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business at New Jersey's Rutgers University. "They'll challenge rules that professors have made, because they think they're stupid basically, or inappropriate."



McCabe said it's likely that more students cheat than admit to it.



The study, published in the September issue of the Academy of Management Learning and Education, defined cheating as including copying the work of other students, plagiarizing and bringing prohibited notes into exams.



McCabe said that in their survey comments, business school students described cheating as a necessary measure and the sort of practice they'd likely need to succeed in the professional world.



"The typical comment is that what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important," McCabe said.



(Agencies)








上周三，一篇研究论文中提到，美国和加拿大商务专业的研究生比其他专业的学生爱作弊。



美国和加拿大共有5300名研究生参加了此项调查。调查发现，56％的商务专业学生承认在过去的一年中有过作弊行为，其中有很多学生认为作弊没什么，因为他们觉得这在商业领域很正常。



此外，54％的工程学研究生、50％的物理学研究生、49％的医药和保健专业学生、45％的法律专业学生、43％的文科生、39％的社会科学和人文专业学生承认在过去的一年中有过作弊行为。



新泽西州罗格斯大学全球商业和管理学专业的唐纳德麦凯比教授是此篇论文的主笔，他说："学生们开始有了自己的准则，他们会对教授们制订的那些规则提出异议，因为他们认为这些规则根本没什么道理，或者压根就不对。"



麦凯比说，实际作弊的学生数可能比承认作弊的人数要多。



这篇论文发表在《教学管理学术研究》的第九期上，文中将作弊定义为"抄袭他人作业、剽窃、携带违禁纸条入考场等行为"。



麦凯比说，商业学院的学生在调查反馈意见中将作弊定义为"在商界成功必需的一种手段和行为"。



麦凯比说："最具代表性的评论就是，把工作搞定最重要，至于通过什么方式搞定是次要的。"








Vocabulary:



challenge : to take exception to; call into question; dispute（提出异议；置疑）



prohibited : forbidden（违禁的；如：prohibited article 违禁物品）


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