Academic dishonesty in higher education—a nationwide study in Taiwan

Abstract

Academic dishonesty has been an important issue. However, only few researches had been done in Asian countries, especially a nationwide study. A sample of 2,068 college students throughout Taiwan was selected and surveyed on four domains of academic dishonesty, including: cheating on test, cheating on assignment, plagiarism, and falsifying documents. The major findings of this study were: (1) the prevalence rate for all types of dishonesty behaviors among college students in Taiwan was 61.72%; (2) the top five most practiced academic dishonesty behaviors in Taiwan are provided paper or assignment for another student, gave prohibited help to others on their assignment, copied others' assignments, passed answers to other students, and copied from other students; (3) students' attitudes correlated with behaviors in all four domains of academic dishonesty; (4) females reported less acceptable to and behaved less academic dishonesty behaviors than males; and (5) freshmen had more dishonest practices than other class ranks.

I Did Cheating, Because… : A Phenomenological Study

“…Yapılan araştırmalarda -kimi araştırmaların sonuçları farklı olmakla birlikte-erkeklerin daha çok kopya çektikleri ve kopya çekmeye yönelik eğilimlerinin kadınlara göre daha güçlü olduğu bulunmuştur (Keçeci ve diğ., 2011;Lin ve Wen, 2007;Molnar ve Kletke, 2012;Whitley ve diğ., 1999). Akademik başarı bakımından katılımcılar orta ve düşük düzeyde başarıya sahiptirler.…”

“…Bu kapsamda, cinsiyet (Ahmadi, 2012;Keçeci, Bulduk, Oruç ve Çelik, 2011;Lin ve Wen, 2007;Molnar ve Kletke, 2012;Whitley, Nelson ve Jones, 1999), genel not ortalaması (Iyer ve Eastman, 2006;Olafson, Schraw, Nadelson, Nadelson ve Kehrwald, 2013), sınıf düzeyi/yaş (Finn ve Frone, 2004;Lupton, Chapman ve Weiss, 2000;Szabo ve Underwood, 2004) ve öğrenim görülen program (Akbulut, Uysal, Odabaşı ve Kuzu, 2008b;Eret ve Ok, 2011) değişkenlerinin kopya çekme davranışları ile ilişkisi incelenmiştir. Ancak bu değişkenlerle kopya çekme arasındaki ilişkiyi inceleyen araştırmaların sonuçlarının tutarlı olmadığı görülmektedir.…”

“…Katılımcıların beyanları tutum ölçekleri (Akbulut ve diğ., 2008a) ve anketler (Cizek 1999;Finn ve Frone, 2004;Lin ve Wen 2007) kullanılarak incelenmiştir. Bu noktada, en önemli tartışma konusu öğrencilerin kopya çekme davranışlarını ölçen tarama çalışmalarının güvenirliğidir.…”

“…Participants' self-reports were analyzed by using attitude scales (Akbulut et al, 2008a) and questionnaires (Cizek 1999;Finn & Frone, 2004;Lin & Wen 2007). At that point, the most important discussion topic is the reliability of survey studies aiming to evaluate cheating behaviors of students.…”

Fair trade The relationship between study abroad Chinese students and the United States

“…Results from a study in Taiwan showed of the 2,068 students surveyed over 60% of students admitted to participating in academic dishonesty (Lin & Wen, 2007). The results also showed that the same percentage of students did not believe such behaviors was unethical, showing that in fact there are many cultural differences within the subject.…”