<p>"The history of students who copy homework from classmates may be as old as school itself. But in today’s age of lecture-hall laptops and online coursework, how prevalent and damaging to the education of students has such academic dishonesty become?
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<p>According to research published online March 18 in Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research, it turns out that unnoticed student cheating is a significant cause of course failure nationally.</p>
<p>A researcher from the University of Kansas has teamed up with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get a better handle on copying in college in the 21st century…etc"</p>
<p>University of Kansas (2010, March 21). Frequency and cost of copying college homework revealed.</p>
<p>Here is the link to the article as it didn’t show up in OP:</p>
<p>[Frequency</a> and cost of copying college homework revealed](<a href=“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100318113750.htm]Frequency”>Frequency and cost of copying college homework revealed | ScienceDaily)</p>
<p>Notice the ad to the right of the article for lil-help which offers to do your homework for a price.</p>
<p>Is anything in that article actually a surprise? Students who don’t do the homework but copy fail more often. Those students generally start at the same level as harder workers at the beginning of the course but fall behind because they don’t keep up with the work. Most of those students procrastinate in starting the homework.</p>
<p>To me the surprise was that so many kids at MIT copy homework. I would have thought students of that caliber would be more motivated to do the problems and figure things out for themselves. Although it doesn’t give the actual rate, it was enough to have data to analyze and draw some conclusions.</p>