Here's Honor Trial Stats

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>With all of the discussion about the Honor System, it is worthwhile to look at the actual numbers of people affected.</p>

<p>Statistics</a>, Honor Committee, U.Va.</p>

<p>Data for the last year was not published. </p>

<p>As noted in CD articles, the data shows that minority students are over-represented in the persons charged and convicted.</p>

<p>For example, in the 2009-10 year, there were 11 trials and 4 of those persons were convicted. The previous year, there were many more cheating trials - which may have been the computer science plagarism cases described elsewhere on this message board.</p>

<p>There are probably many more students who were threatened with a honor charge and avoided a trial by agreeing to drop a class or transfer to another college.</p>

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<p>The system is more than reasonable. If 10-20 students get kicked out per year, that’s roughly 1 in 1000. From my experiences at UVa, students cheat at a much higher rate than that.</p>

<p>Its interesting to see that trial and conviction rates aren’t higher for International students, especially Asians. In the math classes I took they were always the biggest cheaters. I guess its easier for them to claim ignorance…</p>

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<p>Eh? When I did a chi-squared test on some honor statistics back in first year – the Asians had a clear departure in honor trial rates from the rest of the student body – in a rather unfavourable manner.</p>