And those ruminative hours in the saddle are more deeply inspirational than a kickabout in the park, with the professional road-race version of the sport serving up a uniquely tempting smorgasbord of dramatic themes: heroism, loyalty, betrayal and weapons-grade cheating, all washed down with lashings of blood, sweat and tears.
Sticky bottle - Another of cycling's great euphemisms, this is cheating, albeit very low-grade cheating, comparable to a footballer stealing a few yards at a throw-in.
Until meaningless precision is taken out of the grading process, students will try to reduce the sensed capriciousness of grading through cheating.
"Mostly students just stay for the roll call and then leave," he said, adding that bribing professors for good grades and cheating on exams are common practices.
Artificially raising the grades of students, or grading more leniently to help them get a job after school, is both failing to grade students fairly and a form of cheating.
WHY are grading and online cheating especially problematic for MOOCs?
And the emphasis on grades has made cheating a regular occurrence amongst almost all children between 12 and 14 years of age where almost 70percentt of students report cheating on exams and 90percentt report copying another's homework.
It is the mechanism of grading itself that incentivizes cheating.
This means identifying, examining and evaluating submissions for indicators of contract cheating before releasing grades to students.
In the eighth grade you turned yourself in for cheating on that test.
The extensive body of economic and psychological research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating and the GPA.
