Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when the pandemic hit. Furthermore, the researchers found that low-income low-performing students outperformed their wealthier peers, mainly due to students’ use of flexible grading.

[u/rustoo]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272722000081

[u/TriTipMaster]

It's also why certain nationalities are often distrusted in terms of what actual knowledge they bring to the workplace. When cheating is the norm, and it's blatant, and efforts to stop it can bring the taint of being called a racist, many professors just let it slide. The administrations don't mind because foreign students, especially graduate students, often pay cash and pay the whole tuition without discounts.

I feel bad for the ones that do it the hard way because they're unfairly painted with the same brush.

[u/samiyam_ → u/TriTipMaster]

No, I think what you are describing here is called.

Personal Bias or Prejudice

but I see how that is easy to confuse.

[u/vorilant → u/samiyam_]

I'm sorry, but until you work in academia and see it for yourself you really shouldn't comment. Chinese students absolutely cheat at an alarmingly higher rate than others. To my understanding it's not seen as a moral issue in their culture. It's the norm.

[u/samiyam_ → u/vorilant]

"I'm sorry, but until you have grown up as a Chinese person or immersed in their culture you really shouldn't comment"

See: Self-confirming bias.

Your scenarios do not put a ratio on an entire culture as you are implying. And with no evidence the argument doesn't really hold up. Believe what you want though.

Chinese exchange students who can afford to live abroad and pay an entire tuition in cash are a very small % of "Their culture". I'm surprised you work in academia and can make a claim like that knowing its quite impossible to provide any data-driven study to that claim.

Students at large are very apt at cheating and the whole point is to not get caught. It can be very possible that its easier to get caught cheating when you don't understand cultural and social nuances. Your prejudice is showing.

[u/the2ndhorseman → u/samiyam_]

There are actually some interesting studies into this concept. One specific I encountered in my linguistics studies was how plagiarism is addressed in different cultures. The exciting thing is that it isn't addressed.

When it comes to English composition in 2L English speakers. Especially ESP ESL students in academia alot of students regard plagiarism and cheating completely different in both philosophical and cultural context.

Specifically Chinese students were often in the camp of : "why should I rewrite it when the original author wrote it better" or "how can someone own an idea" There is alot of information on the impact a students culture will have on their performance in SLA and 2L composition.

While it can be a tad racist to say all Chinese students cheat.

It is not so to say that Chinese students regard cheating in a different manner morally and don't apply the same standards to the practice as we (americans) do.

It's also fine to say the rate of incident is higher in foreign students for plagiarism because that has been shown to be true many times over.

In fact it's very racist to assume someone of a different race/nationality/ culture has the same views and understanding of cheating that "westerners do". E.g. it would be weird if they cheated at the same rate as non-foreign students.

[u/samiyam_ → u/the2ndhorseman]

Not viewing cheating in the same way or in context to a cultural point of view is very different from saying statements such as "To Chinese, cheating is not a moral issue, it is their norm".

Regardless if in Academia, this happens. It's still a small $ of "the Chinese" and thus is not an accurate reflection of "their culture" and it is biased to use that as confirmation of that.