A woman writes on a notepad in an undated file photo.              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)

上周三，一篇研究論文中提到，美國和加拿大商務專業的研究生比其他專業的學生愛作弊。 美國和加拿大共有5300名研究生參加了此項調查。調查發現，56％的商務專業學生承認在過去的一年中有過作弊行為，其中有很多學生認為作弊沒什么，因為他們覺得這在商業領域很正常。 此外，54％的工程學研究生、50％的物理學研究生、49％的醫藥和保健專業學生、45％的法律專業學生、43％的文科生、39％的社會科學和人文專業學生承認在過去的一年中有過作弊行為。 新澤西州羅格斯大學全球商業和管理學專業的唐納德·麥凱比教授是此篇論文的主筆，他說：“學生們開始有了自己的準則，他們會對教授們制訂的那些規則提出異議，因為他們認為這些規則根本沒什么道理，或者壓根就不對。” 麥凱比說，實際作弊的學生數可能比承認作弊的人數要多。 這篇論文發表在《教學管理學術研究》的第九期上，文中將作弊定義為"抄襲他人作業、剽竊、攜帶違禁紙條入考場等行為"。 麥凱比說，商業學院的學生在調查反饋意見中將作弊定義為"在商界成功必需的一種手段和行為"。 麥凱比說：“最具代表性的評論就是，把工作搞定最重要，至于通過什么方式搞定是次要的。” (英語點津姍姍編輯)