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Advantages and Disadvantages

Of Online Kopyahan
to Grade 11 Students of
FEU Roosevelt Marikina
S.Y 2021-2022

Group 2:
Angel Franzlhynne S. Viloria
Diana Mae Pillarda
Krisha C. Campos
Jhezreel Santos
Jan Angelo Conel
Theodore Jose Conde
 Chapter 1
The problem
Background of the study
•Since Covid19 hit the Philippines in 2020 the
government needs to find ways to continue the learnings of
the students while avoiding the spread of the virus. The
Philippines has changed its Educational system to the New
Normal which means learning academics through online classes
and modular classes.
•Study shows that cheating is unfair in gaining
knowledge and advantages, but DepEd noticed the increase of
uploaded self-learning modules and answered online
activities, Netizen dubbed it as ONLINE KOPYAHAN. Online
Kopyahan is a problem even pre-pandemic, this academic
dishonesty escalated more while our country is adjusting to
the New Normal. When the problem arose, DepEd started
coordinating with the authorities to stop this academic
dishonesty.
•Bombarded with loads of assignments, activities and
projects under the New Normal Learning Process, some
students participated with an online group wherein students
uploaded, shared and leaked their answers, learning tests
and modules.
•Over a year into distance and blended learning set up
of the country's education system under covid19 pandemic the
problem of Online Kopyahan ballooned.
•In 2021 Online Kopyahan group was discovered and
investigated by the government authorities and it was
shutted down.
•Researchers believe that we should not tolerate this
academic dishonesty. Discussing this topic in public helps
other students in realizing and being sensible that this
process will not help their knowledge, learning and literacy
improve. Online Kopyahan might be the easiest way to cope up
with bombarded school projects but this will not even be
rooted in a student's memory and understanding.
Statement of the problem
The researchers sought to determine "What are the advantages
and disadvantages of online kopyahan to Grade 11 Students of
FEU Roosevelt Marikina”
More specifically the researchers would like to ask the
following questions:
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Online
Kopyahan?
2. Why do you think students choose to cheat rather
than do research to answer their modules or
assignments?
3. Do you think parents should be involved in avoiding
online kopyahan in supervising their children at
home while doing online or modular classes?
4. What do you think is the main reason why online
kopyahan is now a chronic topic that should be
addressed properly and seriously?
5. Do you think intellectual dishonesty can easily be
determined in the New Normal Education set up?

Conceptual Framework
Input Process Output
Researchers chose Researcher chose a Researcher will
the students from students in grade 11 gather enough data
Grade 11 Students of STEM-D to be the one regards to what are
FEU Marikina as who will answer the they seeking for
their specific interview questions based on their live
respondents. also before the interview questions
interview they have
conduct an enough
permission

Significance of the study

The result of this study would be a benefit to the
following:
 Students- This study could help them to learn from what
happened and to push them not to be one of them and also
encourage them to study hard when it comes to this kind of
situations wherein we are not allowed to see each other
physically in classes
Teachers- This study will help them to be more aware of
the capabilities of the students that might affect their
academic performance
School owners- This study will help them to be more
aware of the possible outcomes.
Department of Education (DepEd)- This would help them
to be aware of what is happening to the educational system.
And for them to prevent these kinds of issues and problems
so it won’t possibly happen again.

Future Researcher- This would be an example and guide

data for them to follow in the near future and also to make
them aware of the circumstances that might happen when this
kind of situation happens again.

Researchers This study will help them to have knowledge

of the copying taking place through online

Scope and Delimitations

In this study the topic focuses on those students who
are involved in the current issue called ‘Online Kopyahan’
The people of this study are from Grade 11 Students of
Far Eastern University (FEU) Roosevelt Marikina
The number of respondents are 5 by interviewing them
through a media meeting specifically MS Teams.
Definition of Terms

Online Cheating- Is a method of copying using social or

cheating through online
Covid-19- Also known as the Corona Virus 2019 is infectious
disease cause by the SARS-CoV 2 virus
 Online Kopyahan- is a page in facebook there are group of
students in a social media that is used on cheating on their
modules
Distance learning- it has been the new normal for students
during this Covid-19 Pandemic because the DepEd has been
preventing their students also teachers from getting
infected
Pandemic-It is a disease outbreak spreading all over
different countries and continents

Respondents- is a person who replies to something,

especially one supplying information for a survey or
questionnaire or responding to an advertisement.

Study-is the act of learning and spending time discovering

information or an academic work or investigation about a
particular thing or subject area

CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

INTRODUCTION
Researchers are seeking or gathering data from the
issues that are related to “Online Kopyahan”. This topic
refers to those students who cheat on their exams and
schoolwork online.

LOCAL

According to Secretary Briones (2021), The “Online

Kopyahan” community peaked at over 600,000+ members but
after a news report from the local television it was now
left with 571,900 members. It was visible to the public in
the social networking app before it was archived. Today, no
one can create posts, likes, comments or add new people to
the group. Only members who have not left can see the
group’s content. Face-to-face classes have been suspended
since March 2020 due to COVID-19. Students are currently
being taught through alternative learning methods.

Referring to Pia Regalado statement, Teachers are

urging government authorities to investigate Facebook groups
that have become havens for students to cheat, highlighting
the many challenges that the Philippines faces as one of the
world’s last few holdouts for online learning during the
pandemic. “I even tried to look for similar pages last night
and I found a lot of them. Imagine, kahit Grade 2 and Kinder
modules kinokopya sa page?” said by Roma Amor Donato, a
Grade 7 English, and Media Arts teacher.

Several media outlets earlier reported on the “Online

Kopyahan” Facebook group, where students shared answers to
their modules and other learning materials. The online
community has been deleted but at one point, it had over
600,000 members. In April, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian called on
the DepEd to ramp up efforts to stop various forms of
cheating in distance learning.

The Department of Education (DepEd) denounced on

Wednesday, Sept. 22, the proliferation of “Online Kopyahan”
pages in Facebook and vowed to have them removed from the
popular social media site. “The Department does not tolerate
the cheating made by the students regardless of the learning
delivery modality. We are now exhausting all possible means
to stop these activities.” That self-study will help
students to pursue their dream even in a pandemic being
experienced; the teacher will know that students understood
the activity based on their output.

Christian San Jose (2021)said that The Department of

Education (DepEd) this week was surprised to find that over
600,000 Facebook users, students, are members of an online
cheating group named—for a lack of imagination— “Online
Kopyahan.” The group was taken down shortly but there are
more unimaginatively named cheating cohorts online. The
agency’s surprise comes despite its awareness that the
alternative learning setup amidst a pandemic has proven to
be difficult for students and teachers alike. That and its
awareness that cheating has been a lingering problem even
before COVID-19, and not to mention, a human condition.
“Cheating is a problem in society, not just in the
Philippines, but in human nature itself,” DepEd Secretary
Leonor Briones said in a Palace briefing Monday.

In proportion to the Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan

(spark), the issue of online cheating is no longer alarming
because in this type of learning we have, students will just
choose to comply and not to learn with their given task
because some of them are loaded with schoolwork’s and they
still have other things to do. For example, they need to
help their parents in their certain homes. Also, the group
said that there are still a lot of students that does not
have enough or proper gadgets to keep up in our learning
system right now. Spark also added that they do not have
enough time to finish or accomplish an overload of
schoolwork because they also have other things to do or to
work on. So, some of them chose to cheat because it would be
easier for them to finish their work. Spark also said that
our education system only worsened right now with this
pandemic.
With more than a year into modular or online learning,
Philippine students have undoubtedly struggled in coping
with their academic workload. Their struggles bred the
online kopyahan group which is very visible and has a member
of more than 700,000 students of online learning. Briones
also said that cheating is a “lingering issue” and has also
sought the help of the Philippine National Police’s (PNP)
Anti-Cybercrime group (ACG) in investigating the matter.

According to Jae-Hwa Bernardo, The Department of

Education (DepEd) said Monday it was coordinating with
authorities to investigate a Facebook group where students
shared test answers. Several media outlets earlier reported
on the “Online Kopyahan” Facebook group, where students
shared answers to their modules and other learning
materials. The online community has since been deleted but
at one point, it had over 600,000 members. Education
Secretary Leonor Briones said the DepEd would not tolerate
cheating in distance learning. “We will take steps and we
are already in touch with the appropriate authorities,” she
said at the Palace briefing.

In consonance with Education Secretary Leonor Briones

said DepEd is coordinating with authorities to investigate
the online cheating scheme. Online Kopyahan Facebook group
had over 600,000 members, but after going viral and making
headlines in several media outlets, the group has been
deleted.

“To our students and their parents, education is not a

race, so let yourselves learn in an honest way and at your
own pace. Because according to what we always hear our
teachers say: Educating the mind without educating the heart
is no education at all,” Eleazar said. “Education is the
most important part of one’s life…it is a passport to the
future and that the future belongs to those who prepare for
it today. “The Philippines closed schools in March 2020 as
the health crisis unfolded at home to become among Southeast
Asia’s worst coronavirus outbreaks. Since then, the distance
learning scheme has been observed in schools nationwide with
the 2021-2022 academic year beginning sans concrete plans on
face-to-face classes.

FOREIGN
 Professor, reported in his 2012 book; he found that
more than 60 percent of surveyed students who had cheated
considered digital plagiarism to be “trivial”—effectively,
students believed it was not actually cheating at all.
STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING CHEATING Even moral students need
help acting morally, said Dr Jason M. Stephens, who
researches academic motivation and moral development in
adolescents at the University of Auckland’s School of
Learning, Development, and Professional Practice. A study of
military academy students from 1959 to 2002 revealed that
students in communities where cheating is tolerated easily
cave into peer pressure, finding it harder not to cheat out
of fear of losing social status if they do not.

In proportion to Dmochowski, open-book exams

administered this semester feature more open-ended questions
that may require students to look up certain information
online, like the density of ethanol, which would have been
given to students on a closed-book exam offered in-person.
Regardless of which anti-cheating measures professors choose
to implement, Chinmay, like many other students, said that
professors cannot remain ignorant of the cheating that has
become so ubiquitous since classes moved online. While he
does not require students to keep their cameras on, citing
that not all students have access to web cameras, Dmochowski
believes that mandating students be present on Zoom, in
conjunction with the strict time limit and open-note format
of the exam, prevented cheating

In line with Eren Bilen and Alexander Matros, The

COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of all people globally
with most activities being forced to move online, including
teaching. Most schools and universities moved from face-to-
face to online delivery in March 2020. Among other
difficulties related to online teaching, measuring student
performance became one of the chief concerns of instructors.
Many universities reported widespread cheating in online
examinations that took place in Spring 2020, and the problem
became so rampant that even the media addressed it. The 2020
Advanced Placement (AP) examinations illustrate the
difficulty of measuring true student performance on online
examinations without proctoring. Shows surges of Google
searches on keywords related to exam topics perfectly
correlating with the time of the examinations. Since the
online environments used for the 2020 AP exams had no
proctoring, many students took advantage of having immediate
access to Google search.

As stated to Eric Nauman “If one person starts using

it and gets a better grade and these exams are graded on a
curve, then they’re in big trouble.” The number of students
who are cheating is certainly higher than the number being
caught or reported. Research has shown that instructors
believe cheating happens much less often than students do,
which means they may not be looking for it. When they do
find it, many choose to simply give cheaters an F, without
reporting the incidents further.

A study from Imperial College London found a near-200%

increase in questions and answers posted to Chegg’s homework
help section between April and August 2020. Many students
are doing it because during the pandemic remote learning
shift, they think no one is watching, experts say. Texas A&M
found more than 800 cases of academic fraud. Boston
University also reportedly investigated students
inappropriately using Chegg to cheat. Many students say the
shift to online education has drastically affected their
ability to learn and retain information, and they only
intend to cheat in the short-term. Professors are reluctant
to act because of the sheer number of cheating students.
They also offer live and automated proctoring options. Many
programs and proctors will track eye movements during exams.
They can also end the test or flag it for someone to review
if they suspect suspicious activities. A lot of students are
also using calculators which plug in answers meant to be
worked through instead of working through questions.
Referring to Yoshiko’s Article, the World Health
Organization’s designation of the novel coronavirus as a
pandemic on March 11, universities across America are
shutting down to slow its spread. On March 6, the University
of Washington took the lead, cancelling all in-person
classes, with a wave of universities across the country
following suit: University of California, Berkeley, U.C.,
San Diego, Stanford, Rice, Harvard, Columbia, Barnard,
N.Y.U, Princeton, and Duke, among many others. This shift
into virtual classrooms is the culmination of the past
weeks’ efforts to prevent COVID-19 from entering

In Dipti’s Article, since the onset of COVID-19 last

year, it is not only the virus that has perfected the art of
copying. Students around the world are acing it. In online
exams, students have the choice of copying from each other,
from the internet and from other resource material.
Consequently, setting a question paper in these times has
become more challenging than answering one. For most
subjects, evaluation is a fundamentally problematic task
anyway. When confronted with an answer, the evaluator must
convert the worth of the answer into a number. Even with a
rubric at hand this is never straightforward. And it would
be best to not talk about the reliability of these scores.
Different evaluators at various times and the same evaluator
at a different time would rarely give the exact same marks
to an answer. It is such a fragile scoring system on which
entire careers are built. The pandemic has compounded the
difficulty of evaluation.

In Rebecca Heilweil statement, With the switch to

online learning, these services are not perfect, because
it’s easy to find online tips and tricks for cheating on
their schoolwork. Some suggest hiding notes underneath the
view of the camera or setting up a secret laptop or monitor.
“With the rapid shift to online, we can’t watch students as
they do their work in the same way that we might have in the
past,” said Phillip Dawson, a researcher
who studies cheating at Australia’s Deakin University.
“We’ll see different kinds of cheating.”

According to Kessler (2017) International reported 76 %

of surveyed students said they had copied text from someone
else’s assignments. Slightly more 79 % admitted to
plagiarism from internet sources. Around 72 % said they had
used mobile devices to cheat. More surprising: 42 % of
students admit to purchasing custom papers or essays online,
and 28 % have paid someone to do their online work. Sadly,
many of them thought it was ok to cheat

Professors believe students cheat more in online

courses than face-to-face classes. Many colleges ramped up
use of detection tools amid shift to remote instruction this
spring. Students are more likely to engage in dishonesty
when they’re under stress and pressure. Students’ biggest
complaint this spring was a lack of engagement. If you don’t
have an enforcement approach, you’re letting down honest
students, the instructor says. “We don’t care,” says Mary
Washington’s Rebecca Rettinger. “How can I stop cheating?”
is the wrong question for instructors to ask. “Teach better”
is the best way to minimize cheating, David Rettinger says.
Bertram Gallant asks instructors to “keep your educator hat
on” rather than their “police hat”. Academic integrity is
about making students feel part of a learning community,
Professor John Rettinger says. Transparency and listening
are key to building a sense of belonging, he says. Remote
instructors can make “small, scalable changes” to ensure
their students’ academic integrity.
 CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the method researchers choose for this
research will be shown. The method used in the research is
our way to gather enough data to fulfil the questions
researchers seek from our proposed questions.

RESEARCH DESIGN
The research proposal will use a qualitative research
approach and interviewing is used to collect the data. The
researchers tried to get answers from the general problems
to justify and satisfy the objective of the study. Likewise,
it also attempted to know the different advantages and
disadvantages.
According to Pritha Bhandari (2020), Qualitative research
involves collecting and analysing non-numerical data (e.g.,
text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or
experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into
a problem or generate innovative ideas for research.
Qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative
research, which involves collecting and analysing numerical
data for statistical analysis
Ethnographic research is the kind of research the
researchers performed in this study because the researcher’s
study through direct observation in their natural
environment. Ethnographic research is mostly used in
qualitative research because in this study the researchers
are looking at social interaction of users in each
environment.

Research Locale
The study was conducted at Far Eastern University
Roosevelt Marikina Campus, this place was selected for this
study because the students in this school also encountered
the same problem the researchers have while having this
study in the process. This study was implemented in the
students of FEU Roosevelt Marikina from Grade 11 Stem D.

Sample or the Respondents

The respondents of this study particularly students at
FEU Roosevelt Marikina School Year 2021-2022. One of the
most vital processes to make this study possible and
successful. All those participants were selected because of
their capabilities to answer the questions the researchers
have. Researchers chosen respondents are at the age between
16-18 years old and are from Grade 11 STEM D students.

Research Instruments
The questionnaires the researchers have was used as the
main data gathering instrument. The questionnaires were used
to answer the statement of the problem. Researcher’s
questionnaires consist of 5 questions.
The researchers will use online medias mostly Ms Teams to
make a live interview and also researchers will have a live
audio recording.

Data Gatherings
In Data gathering researchers first step is to have
permissions to their respondents regarding the live
interview. After that, researchers will proceed on observing
how their respondents answer their dedicated questions. On
wards, the answer of the respondents will be analyzed by the
researchers to gather the data needed.
The date where the researcher's will proceed on getting
the data from the respondents will start at the Second
Quarter of the school year 2021-2022

References:
Chapter 1
- Bernardo,Jaehwa (2021): DepEd Coordinating with
authorities to probe Online groups promoting cheating.
-Malipot, Merlina H.(2021):‘Online Kopyahan’ is a result of
unresolved distance woes, group says

Chapter 2
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- Regalado,Pia (2021):Online Kopyahan, Where Cheating is
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