> Chinese students cheat because cheating is part of Chinese culture.
It's not Chinese culture. It's about penalty. During my college study, two student had to quit school at them forth year because they got caught in an Exam. No one will risk that dangerous to cheat in an Exam. If school didn't punish the cheater, this will happen again and again. I think you are filtering all positive news about China(Like most media in western country do) and judge Chinese people based on these negative news. Please open your mind.
I agree it's not Chinese culture to cheat. Adults know this leads to poor work performance. Why, then, does the cheating happen on a larger scale among Chinese students?
American high schools and below are more strict than Chinese schools. In the US, after four years of high school, most of us know one or two kids who were expelled for some major transgression like cheating.
Therefore, by the time Americans get to college, most of them know there are immediate consequences for cheating. Students coming from China may never have seen someone seriously punished for cheating. Rather, students are praised for giving gifts.
So, if the student is innocent, whose fault is it that Chinese students do not know the consequences of cheating? Is it the American college's fault? Or the Chinese high school's?
Someone else in this thread pointed out how lousy instructors filter out students who are not self-driven [1]
Perhaps China's plan is to just let what happens happen. Anecdotally, I feel this produces some extremely smart kids alongside some who get caught up in the feeling that the piece of paper is the most important thing.
It's not Chinese culture. It's about penalty. During my college study, two student had to quit school at them forth year because they got caught in an Exam. No one will risk that dangerous to cheat in an Exam. If school didn't punish the cheater, this will happen again and again. I think you are filtering all positive news about China(Like most media in western country do) and judge Chinese people based on these negative news. Please open your mind.