Cheating Is Widespread Among Teens, Poll Finds
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
More than seven in 10 teenagers say students in their school cheat on tests, and almost as many say cheating on homework is widespread too, a national poll finds.
Almost a third of students admit to cheating, according to the ABC News Primetime poll of youths age 12 to 17.
More than two in 10 students ages 12 to 14 say they’ve cheated; that number rose to over four in 10 among those age 16 and 17.
The telephone poll of a random sample of 504 students was conducted Feb. 4 to 8 and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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