Students and Faculty Don't Agree about Cheating

From a 2012 study at Waterloo University (https://www.uwo.ca/tsc/resources/publications/newsletter/selected_articles/academic_integrity_survey1.html)

	Incidence		Seriousness
	Students	Faculty	Students	Faculty
1. Unpermitted collaboration	48%	64%	33%	80%
2. Getting questions/answers from someone	32%	38%	68%	94%
3. Copying a few sentences from internet	27%	80%	76%	90%

From, I believe, a 2002 study in the US and Canada - I don't know if this one is prevalence or seriousness - I assume seriousness. (http://www.sfu.ca/integritytaskforce/donmccabe_slides.pdf):





By far the trickiest thing here is writing. Faculty think that "copying sentence from the internet without citing" happens WAY more than students do, like almost 3 times more. Similarly, the McCabe study treats plagiarism, "cut and paste," and paper from mill differently, but I have a feeling many students and faculty would have different understandings and definitions of these things.



My informal surveys of first year-students, local and international, overwhelmingly get this answer:
" I don't really see much cheating and it's not a big deal."

My conversations with faculty members overwhelmingly get this response:
"cheating is rampant, especially among international students."


Is this a clear case of right and wrong? Different interpretations of the same phenomena? Competing discourse worlds?